Op 04-09-10 10:52, Tixy schreef: > I'm trying to set up NFS to use in a home made NAS and want to add some > form of server based authentication for access. All of the information I > can find seems to suggest using kerberos, is there a simpler alternative > that could do something like check a username+password? You can use NFS via a SSH or VPN tunnel. The reason that it is complicated is that when you authenticate to the server, you need also a ticket that tells the server you authenticated. Else you'd need to type your password every time you check a file on the NFS. Kerberos is a clean way of exactly doing that: handing out the tickets to track sessions. SSH and VPN tunnels basically do the same: keep a lasting session. You can probably try some firewalling techniques for a simple a-little-less-easy access to the NFS.
Sjoerd
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