Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper() | Date | Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:58:03 -0500 |
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On Mar 23, 2005, at 17:34, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well one question is "does it make sense to make a keyring session a > part > of the call_usermodehelper() API?". As it appears that only one caller > will ever want to do that then I'd say no, and that it should be some > specialised thing private to the key code and the call_usermodehelper() > implementation. > > So unless you think that a significant number of callers will appear > who > are actually using the new capability then it would be better to keep > the > existing call_usermodehelper() API.
I'm fairly sure that OpenAFS or other AFS clients will need to make use of this when they move to the kernel keyring system. I had a discussion with Jeffrey Hutzelman on this topic a couple days ago on OpenAFS-Devel. The OpenAFS cache manager would want to call into userspace to convert between Kerberos and AFS tickets/tokens.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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