Re: [nfsv4] AUTH_GSS for Callbacks

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From: Kevin Coffman (kwc@citi.umich.edu)
Date: 10/30/03-08:14:44 AM Z


Subject: Re: [nfsv4] AUTH_GSS for Callbacks 
From: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Message-Id: <20031030141443.1CA9F20842@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:14:44 -0500


> I'm having some trouble understanding this oft repeated
> system administrator's environment, since he seems to be interested
> in security. How does each client get an IP address assigned to it?
> Since we reject a manual process for several thousand clients,
> we are left with DHCP or something like it. How does the client then get
> its OS installed for first time? Some kind of automatic network installation/
> boot,
> such as JumpStart.

In our environment there isn't one "he" who is "the" system
administrator.  I've been asked by the help desk people, "When are
we going to get rid of this Kerberos thing that causes so many
problems?"

The people offering the service, NFSv4 for instance, may be
concerned about security, but the users just see it as a nuisance.

I guess that is our job: to try to make it secure and less of a
"nuisance".

K.C.



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