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]:59695 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751252Ab3GAQXZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:23:25 -0400 Message-ID: <51D1ACFA.2010203@RedHat.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:23:22 -0400 From: Steve Dickson MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Brown CC: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Chuck Lever Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gssd: add -N option to use root credentials as machine credentials. References: <20130603005219.20080.1927.stgit@notabene.brown> <20130603010022.20080.88360.stgit@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: <20130603010022.20080.88360.stgit@notabene.brown> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Neil, On 02/06/13 21:00, Neil Brown wrote: > Since linux-3.7, the kernel asks explicitly for machine credentials > rather than root credentials to authenticate state management requests. > > This causes a regression for people who do not have machine > credentials configured and were using "gssd -n" to instruct gssd to > disable the default mapping of using machine credentials to authorise > accesses by 'root'. > > This patch adds '-N' flag which instruct gssd explicitly to use 'root' > credentials whenever 'machine' credentials are requested. Thus > gssd -n -N > provides the same service that > gssd -n > used to. > > In summary: > > Credentials used for different request types and different gssd flags: > > Request type: | "gssd" "gssd -n" "gssd -N" "gssd -nN" > | > machine | machine machine root root > | > root | machine root machine root > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown So is this no longer needed do the kernel change you and Chuck came up with? steved.