From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32079 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753719Ab3BUVBm (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:01:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:01:39 -0500 From: "J. Bruce Fields" To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, chuck.lever@oracle.com, simo@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication. Message-ID: <20130221210139.GF3531@pad.fieldses.org> References: <1361464705-12340-1-git-send-email-bfields@redhat.com> <1361464705-12340-7-git-send-email-bfields@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1361464705-12340-7-git-send-email-bfields@redhat.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 I'm assuming that web page is just out of date--once this is in the kernel we're *not* making backwards-incompatible changes to the protocol. --b.