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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PCNFS gid
Message-ID: <1489@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 23 Apr 89 10:22:03 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The real solution is to change both the clients and servers so that
>something substantial is passed in the "authentication" field.  I think
>that Sun plans this in the next version of RPC.

"Next version"?  The version that came out with SunOS 4.0, and the
NFSSRC 4.0 ONC/NFS distribution, already includes this, if you're
referring to "DES authentication".  I don't know if it's in the 3.9
version of RPC posted to "comp.sources.unix".

More correctly, I don't know whether *most* of it is there; assorted
bureaucrats in the US government have decided that encryption mechanisms
are "munitions", and therefore the encryption code used in DES
authentication requires all sorts of obnoxious export licenses, at least
in source form.  As such, I doubt the 3.9 version has the encryption
code, and I suspect 4.0 source and the NFSSRC 4.0 distribution has
"domestic" and "international" versions, with the latter not including
the DES code.