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Can I use ssh to securely forward UDP-based services, such as NFS or NIS?

April 26, 2017forward NFS NIS securely Services SSH

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Can I use ssh to securely forward UDP-based services, such as NFS or NIS?

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There is a general working solution for RPC-based services, such as NIS. You can download it from ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/Local/informatik/sec_rpc/ . NIS, in particular, is working. In principle, this could also be adapted for NFS; this has not been done yet. Services which are based purely on UDP, such as DNS, have not been secured with ssh yet, although it is possible in principle.