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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2007
Aaron Christensen, St. Paul Park, MN (US);
Prabhu Damodharan, Shoreview, MN (US);
William Browning, Blaine, MN (US);
Weibao Wu, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Xianbo Zhang, Madison, WI (US);
Aaron Christensen, St. Paul Park, MN (US);
Prabhu Damodharan, Shoreview, MN (US);
William Browning, Blaine, MN (US);
Weibao Wu, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Xianbo Zhang, Madison, WI (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Providing authentication of users accessing an NFS shared file system. A shared secret is used as a component of the mount point used to access the NFS share. Upon receiving a request to access to the data in the NFS share, the process creates at least one cryptographic value and then creates a path to the mount point which incorporates the cryptographic value. The process then creates the mount point at the path, e.g., /PATH:k1, where k1 is the cryptographic value. Creation of the mount point is preferably performed using NFS protocol semantics, without requiring any changes to the NFS protocol semantics. A second cryptographic value, k2, may be used for unmounting the mount point.