From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unified keys for NFS, CIFS and AFS for security data Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:34:27 +0000 Message-ID: <3599.1295624067@redhat.com> Cc: dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: lsf-pc-cunTk1MwBs98uUxBSJOaYoYkZiVZrdSR2LY78lusg7I@public.gmane.org Return-path: Sender: linux-nfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org I'd like to propose a discussion topic for the LSF: how best to implement a common key type for use by NFS, CIFS and AFS such that, say, a kerberos key can be encapsulated within one and then be pulled out by various filesystems. Furthermore, it would be necessary to allow the request_key() upcall mechanism to perform GSSAPI queries. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html