Re: Question on current state of sec=krb5* integration in cifs.ko

Volker Lendecke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Organization SerNet GmbH, Goettingen, Germany
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:55:12AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Yes, much...
> 
> NFS (well, RPC actually) sends credentials with every call, so if you
> destroy the creds, then the client and server will tend to pick up on
> that fact rather quickly. With CIFS the credentials are just used to
> establish a "session". After that, krb5 doesn't really come into play
> very much (at least until you have to reconnect).

It's not *as* bad as it sounds security-wise, SMB signing
attempts to provide integrity, and the Samba extensions for
SMB encryption (Jeff: Hint...! :-)) would provide
confidentiality.

Volker

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