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Encrypted fileshares in the local network? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone, I've been thinking about this for a bit and am looking for opinions/alternatives.

Essentially, I'd like to encrypt my shares (NFS/Samba) on my local network. I'm awake that Kerberos is a good option with NFS, but I was hoping for something simpler. The other idea I have right now is to use stunnel with NFSv3/Samba to encrypt my traffic but I don't know if this is a good idea.

How are you doing it? What do you suggest?

Thanks!

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[–] waigl@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is sshfs an option? Unfortunately, I don't think you can put that into /etc/fstab, though...

[–] moh9aiTh@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, you can. Either on boot or on demand. 👍

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Though it does seem to to require your private key to be unencrypted...

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well passwordless. But you can put it on an encrypted partition.

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Well passwordless.

Same thing in this context. But sure, an encrypted partition would work.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would this be an ideal solution to share media from the NAS to the media server?

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Dunno about ideal, but it should work.

It does have quite a bit of overhead, meaning it's not the fastest out there, but as long as it's fast enough to serve the media you need, that shouldn't matter.

Also, you need to either mount it manually on the command line whenever you need it or be comfortable with leaving your SSH private key in your media server unencrypted. Since you are already concerned with needing to encrypt file share access even in the local network, the latter might not be a good option to you.

The good part about it is, as long as you can ssh from your media server to your NAS, this should just work with no additional setup needed.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks, I'll think more on this