Re: NFSv4 backchannel authentication

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:30:53PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 18:28 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:53:01PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> > > How is this any different to requiring that the user start rpc.statd
> > > before launching an NFSv3 mount? Just document the requirement if it
> > > isn't already clear enough, and we can move on.
> > > 
> > > The other source of confusion here, was that the rpc.svcgssd was
> > > delivered through a nfs-kernel-server package, which indicates that we
> > > first and foremost need to educate the distro packagers.
> > 
> > hmm, if both rpc.gssd and rpc.svcgssd are needed on clients and servers, isn't
> > it worth of merging them into a single process?
> 
> You don't need rpc.gssd to use rpcsec_gss with NFSv3, nor do you need it
		 ^^^^^^^^

You meant rpc.svcgssd, unless you were thinking about the nfsd side.

> if you're not intending on using delegations with NFSv4.

Though the default should be to support delegations.

--b.