[geeks] Secure network filesystem questions

Tue Feb 27 22:51:00 CST 2007

On Feb 26, 2007, at 17:51, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> NIS and NIS+ are directory services.

I know that, but in order to use secure NFS, I need one of them (at  
least, I think that's what the Sun docs were telling me).

> Are you looking for authentication, privacy, or both?

Both. OpenAFS has been suggested to me offlist (oops, and now on list  
- thanks Sevan), and it looks promising, but I haven't implemented it  
yet.

  - Micah