Re: [PATCH 0/2] nfs-utils: systemd units bug fixes and comments.

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

On 02/18/2014 02:36 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> At this point its a pipe dream for rpc.gssd to run with no keytab.
> This is not a pipe dream. 
I meant its a pipe dream in the current state due to, your nicely 
termed, "gssd log diarrhea" ;-) 

steved.
 
> I’m talking about the common use case where a user kinit’s as root then uses the “-n” option on gssd so that root’s credential is used as the client’s machine credential, instead of using the keytab to establish a GSS context.
> 
> With the exception of kernels 3.9 - 3.12, this has always worked, does require gssd to be running, and does not need to have a keytab on the client to operate correctly.  When 3.9 broke this feature, people (including NeilB!) complained loudly.
> 
>> > It logs a ton of errors messages on every upcall which means 
>> > on every mount these days.
>> > We either have to tone down the error messages or check for the 
>> > existence of the keytab before processing the upcall.
>> > I think the latter would better… 
> gssd default verbosity is a legacy of the days when Kerberized NFS was new and we wanted verbose logging to monitor gssd activity.  It seems like a harmless step forward to eliminate them or hide some or all of them behind a gssd command line option.
> 
> The bug here is gssd log diarrhea.