Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:39:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS authentication Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909140238080.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909140933460.333-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done > > by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel? Can > > anyone give me a pointer? Thanks a lot. > > Kerberos authentication is done by nfsd. The kernel returns ENEEDAUTH from > the nfssvc() call and nfsd does the authentication, passing the results > back via nfssvc(). I don't think this code is actually used by anyone so > there is a strong possibility that it doesn't work at all. nfs_socket.c:#ifdef NFSKERB nfs_socket.c- XXX nfs_socket.c-#endif There is some work already there, it's just incomplete. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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