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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gssd - expired credentials problem
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:16:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51505C36.5000508@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130309112531.GA13250@ics.muni.cz>



On 09/03/13 06:25, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that there is a problem with expired credentials if NFS client's
> time is even few seconds behind KDC's or NFS server's time. Client's kernel
> requests new GSS context but rpc.gssd is happy with existing krb cache as it
> valid according to local time.
> 
> Is there any reason for gssd to check validity of existing cache when kernel
> requests a new context?
> 
> However, it seems that this trivial patch solves this issue.
> 
> 300 is because I believe that clock skew must be within 300sec for kerberos.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@gmail.com>
Committed...

steved.

> 
> diff -rNu nfs-utils-1.2.7.orig/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c nfs-utils-1.2.7/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c
> --- nfs-utils-1.2.7.orig/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c 2012-11-12 00:01:23.000000000 +0100
> +++ nfs-utils-1.2.7/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c      2013-02-15 16:35:35.652482164 +0100
> @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
>         char kt_name[BUFSIZ];
>         char cc_name[BUFSIZ];
>         int code;
> -       time_t now = time(0);
> +       time_t now = time(0)+300; // workaround for clock skew among NFS server, NFS client and KDC
>         char *cache_type;
>         char *pname = NULL;
>         char *k5err = NULL;
> 
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-09 11:25 [PATCH] gssd - expired credentials problem Lukas Hejtmanek
2013-03-25 14:16 ` Steve Dickson [this message]

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