is NFS secure ?

[Bliss, Aaron]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but unlike samba for example, NFS
doesn't offer a way to allow only certain users for example to connect
to a share; Restrictions based on IP address can only be applied to the
portmap daemon...  Are those statements accurate?  Thanks.

Aaron 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Anze Vidmar
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:08 AM
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Subject: RE: is NFS secure ?

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:58 -0400, Shekhar Dhotre wrote:

> So, NFS versions before NFSv4 were not secure right ?
I didn't say that. NFSv4 offers significant security and performance
enhancements over older versions of NFS protocol. For example, NFSv4
incorporates RPCSEC-GSS (Secure RPC using generic security service API)
security, which makes it possible to encrypt the data stream transmitted
between  NFS clients and servers. That's SECURE in my book :)
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Anze Vidmar <anzevi at gmail.com>

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