[GTALUG] The current state of NFS

[Giles Orr]

After a bit more research and thought, It seems that NFS without Kerberos
isn't secure, and I'm not implementing Kerberos - so I'm not implementing
NFS.  I was already part way to the hinted at and directly proposed
solution: rsync-over-ssh for backup, and Read-Only SMB for media sharing.
NFS would be more elegant, but without proper security its not acceptable
to me for my private files.

Thanks to everyone for the responses: it helped me figure out what I wanted
to do.

On 26 February 2018 at 04:05, Robert Brockway via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
>
> My understanding of NFSv4 is that it is not NFS.  It is something new
>> and complicated that is way beyond what previous NFS versions did.
>> Sure it's called NFS, but it's different.
>>
>
> It is quite different but since NFS 4.1 it has looked the same at least.
> I'm able to switch between NFS & NFS4 in /etc/fstab and remount filesystems
> using a different version of the protocol.  I've had to do this for
> debugging a few times.
>
> I found something that seems to indicate it is possible to make NFSv4
>> run without kerberos and all that:
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00476.html
>>
>
> I've run 4.1 without Kerberos for years.
>

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Giles
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