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From: David Howells <dhowells@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New authentication management syscalls
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 18:44:50 +0100
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Hi Christoph,

> >  (3) settok(const char *fs, const char *key, size_t size, const void *data)
> 
> fs is the path to a mount point?

No. "fs" is the name of a filesystem.

I think this might be a better idea than the name of a mountpoint as it would
then be possible to set the tokens prior to mounting, maybe so that you _can_
mount.

I'm thinking a bit of samba here, where authentication information needs to be
passed upon mounting (workstation/domain, username, password).

David