From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:31:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:30:55 -0400 Received: from [209.38.98.99] ([209.38.98.99]:29631 "EHLO srvr201.castmark.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:30:43 -0400 Message-Id: <200109051931.f85JVUf11156@srvr201.castmark.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Fred To: joe.mathewson@btinternet.com, Joseph Mathewson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Secure network fileserving Linux <-> Linux Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:30:57 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] In-Reply-To: <200109051913.f85JD2K01304@ambassador.mathewson.int> In-Reply-To: <200109051913.f85JD2K01304@ambassador.mathewson.int> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org One possible solution might be samba, but I'd be lying if I asserted anything about its security, I do know that it can be configured to operate entirely over SSL though. Fred __________________________________________________ On Wednesday 05 September 2001 02:13 pm, Joseph Mathewson wrote: > Sorry to ask another annoying question so quickly after my SCSI problems, > but > > Does anyone know of/use a secure network filesharing system on a Linux > network? We currently have a room of about 10 machines, mostly Linux > clients (some MacOS X, soon to come Sun and HP-UX boxes) and servers (all > running Linux). > > For some time now, we've been using NFS for filesharing /home and have been > extremely concerned about security. All the clients in theory run the same > uids/gids, thanks to LDAP, but that doesn't stop someone plugging in an > unauthorized machine and merrily destroying everyone's home directories. > > Apparently some work was done to Kerberize various bits of NFS, and Sun > have a secure(r) implementation in Solaris. > > Does anyone know of a free (preferably easy :) way of secure Linux <-> > Linux filesharing? Apologies if that seems like a flame, maybe I've missed > the obvious solution. (Preferably a solution that doesn't involve editing > /etc/exports to only allow connections from specified IPs, because if > someone was going to go to the length of destroying our data, they could > fake that. Similarly, MAC addresses.) > > Joe. > > +-------------------------------------------------+ > > | Joseph Mathewson | > > +-------------------------------------------------+ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/