Administering Authentication With Secure RPC
By requiring authentication for
use of mounted NFS file systems, you increase the security of your network.
The following task map points to procedures that configure Secure RPC
for NIS, and NFS.
Table 6 Task Map: Administering Authentication With Secure RPC
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1. Start the keyserver.
| Ensures that keys can be created so that users can be authenticated.
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2. Set up credentials on an NIS host.
| Ensures that the root user on a host can be authenticated
in an NIS environment.
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3. Give an NIS user a key.
| Enables a user to be authenticated in an NIS environment.
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4. Share NFS files with authentication.
| Enables an NFS server to securely protect shared file systems using
authentication.
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