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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Gliwinski <Michael.Gliwinski@henderson-group.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gss context cache
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:00:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130930150013.GH16579@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130930100000.70578c80@tlielax.poochiereds.net>

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:00:00AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:06:47 +0100
> Michael Gliwinski <Michael.Gliwinski@henderson-group.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > On RHEL6 nfs-utils-1.2.3-36
> > 
> > man rpc.gssd says it -t wasn't specified then kernel gss contexts will be 
> > cached for the lifettime of the Kerberos service ticket used in its creation.  
> > Is there a way to see the contexts + service tickets in that cache?
> > 
> 
> No, AFAIK.
> 
> > Also, is there any way short of rebooting the client to evict one entry from 
> > that cache, or even clear the cache entirely?
> > 
> 
> There is a gss_destroy_creds script which ships as part of nfs-utils.
> That should basically do what you need, but it's not well-documented so
> you'll have to play with it some...

My memory is that depended on some undocumented feature of the upcall
since removed.  (Maybe the ability to send a downcall that isn't a
response to some upcall?)  But I may be misremembering.  Somebody should
probably check and remove that script (and gss_cltn_send_err) if I'm
right.

--b.
> 
> > (looking for this as I had situations where access was denied by the NFS 
> > server and I could see the principal was getting mapped to nfsnobody, etc. and 
> > was suspecting the account was changed on the KDC and the old context/ticket 
> > may have been causing problems)
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-30 12:06 gss context cache Michael Gliwinski
2013-09-30 14:00 ` Jeff Layton
2013-09-30 15:00   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2013-09-30 15:53     ` Jeff Layton
2013-09-30 18:04     ` Jeff Layton

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