Re: [Hampshire] SECURE NFS ROOT ?

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Author: Dr A. J. Trickett
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To: isaacclose, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] SECURE NFS ROOT ?
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 at 09:52:57AM +0000, Isaac Close wrote:
>
> hello all,


> i'm trying to find information about some sort of 'secure'
> NFS-ROOT Filesystem setup. So far, i'm not having much luck.
>
> I have working NFS-ROOT machines, but as you may already know
> NFS is not encrypted, and i can quite easily intercept packets
> with code of my own.
>
> So, what to do ? Do you know something ?


You can hack NFSv3 to run over some kind of secure tunnel or VPN.

Better still run NFSv4 which is better than NFSv3 anyway but turn
on Kerbose which makes it secure.

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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    -- anon