Re: NFS wiki : NFSv4 Enduser doc kerberos

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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:37 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 02:24:07PM +0100, David Greaves wrote:
> > FYI I've made an attempt to update this page:
> >   http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Enduser_doc_kerberos
> >
> > If someone could please take a look and correct any errors I've made that
> > would be nice.
> >
> > Some questions:
> > * should a client have an nfs/<fqdn> principal  (it works without)
>
> I'm actually not sure what the latest client requires--I thought it
> still needed some kind of machine credential on the client.

Kerberos mounts can be done w/o a machine credential, but root (or the
user doing the mount) must obtain credentials somehow.  To be
workable, I would think that a keytab of some kind is required (with a
cron using it to keep credentials fresh).

> > * Is the "allow_weak_crypto=true" part still correct?
>
> Yes, unless you're running the very latest (unreleased) upstream kernel
> and nfs-utils, which includes support for stronger crypto.
>
> --b.
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