NFS Kerberos

Kerberos authentication uses DES encryption to improve security over the network. The kernel implementations of NFS and RPC network services have been modified to add support for a new RPC authentication flavor that is based on the Generalized Security Services API (GSS-API). This support contains the hooks to add stronger security to the NFS environment.

The share and mount commands have been altered to provide NFS support for Kerberos. Also, the share command now allows for multiple authentication flavors from different clients.

For more information, refer to NFS Administration Guide.