On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > 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.
I have a feeling that it was once complete but was ripped out for crypto-export reasons. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [email protected] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
