Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:53:38 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] AFS filesystem for Linux (2/2) | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com> writes:
>> NFSv4 does indeed require the full kerberos encryption stuff in >> the kernel. The RFC specifies that krb5 support is a minimum >> requirement, and we will expect to have that in 2.6 (or 3.0 or >> whatever it's called these days...)
> Might this be something I can make use of for my AFS filesystem > too?
Possibly. Our intention is to integrate the RPCSEC_GSS security protocol (see RFC2203) into the sunrpc code, then use krb5 as one of the authentication flavours.
Whereas I doubt that AFS uses RPCSEC_GSS, I believe that the kerberos code itself (+ upcall mechanism for getting user tokens etc.) could be reused by you. I presume that you would make use of the sunrpc code too?
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