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From: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com,
	chuck.lever@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:27:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1361885271.2962.1.camel@willson.li.ssimo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130221210139.GF3531@pad.fieldses.org>

On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 16:01 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:38:25AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > +NFS Server New RPC Upcall Mechanism
> > +-----------------------------------
> > +
> > +The newer upcall mechanism uses RPC over a unix socket to a daemon
> > +called gss-proxy, implemented by a userspace program called Gssproxy.
> > +
> > +The gss_proxy RPC protocol is currently documented here:
> > +
> > +	https://fedorahosted.org/gss-proxy/wiki/ProtocolDocumentation
> 
> By the way, Simo, that still says "The protocol is not stable yet and it
> is being revised while we progress prototyping client and server code."
> 
> I'm assuming that web page is just out of date--once this is in the
> kernel we're *not* making backwards-incompatible changes to the
> protocol.

The part that is used by the kernel is already marked as unchangeable in
my mind, I will try to take some time in the next few weeks to update
the page.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York


      reply	other threads:[~2013-02-26 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-21 16:38 [PATCH 0/6] gss-proxy upcall for nfsd J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 1/6] SUNRPC: make AF_LOCAL connect synchronous J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 18:17   ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-21 19:48     ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 20:02       ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-21 20:36         ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 20:42           ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-26  4:06             ` [PATCH] " J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 2/6] SUNRPC: attempt AF_LOCAL connect on setup J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 3/6] SUNRPC: no idle timeout for AF_LOCAL sockets J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 4/6] SUNRPC: conditionally return endtime from import_sec_context J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 5/6] SUNRPC: Add RPC based upcall mechanism for RPCGSS auth J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 18:35   ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-21 19:58     ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 21:37     ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-12 18:11     ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-12 18:21       ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-04-12 18:33         ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 6/6] SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-21 21:01   ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-02-26 13:27     ` Simo Sorce [this message]

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