RFC 2623 on NFS Security, RPCSEC

RFC 2623 on NFS Security, RPCSEC_GSS, and Kerberos V5

RFC Editor <rfc-ed@ISI.EDU> Sat, 26 June 1999 01:02 UTC

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	RFC 2623:

        Title:	    NFS Version 2 and Version 3 Security Issues and
		    the NFS Protocol's Use of RPCSEC_GSS and 
		    Kerberos V5
	Author(s):  M. Eisler
        Status:     Proposed Standard
	Date:       June 1999
        Mailbox:    mre@eng.sun.com
        Pages:      19
        Characters: 42521
	Updates/Obsoletes/See Also: None 
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-nfsv4-nfssec-01.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfcrfc2623.txt


This memorandum clarifies various security issues involving the NFS
protocol (Version 2 and Version 3 only) and then describes how the
Version 2 and Version 3 of the NFS protocol use the RPCSEC_GSS
security flavor protocol and Kerberos V5.  This memorandum is
provided so that people can write compatible implementations.

This document is a product of the Network File System Version 4
Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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