Re: GSSPROXY ( for NFS with sec=krb5, krb5i , krb5p ) is development still active or is it being depreciated

[Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>]

On 13 Mar 2025, at 7:30, Andrew J. Romero wrote:

> Hi
>
> Alexander Bokovoy provided excellent answers to most of my questions on
> this topic See: Thread: gssproxy  security, configuration and life-cycle
> questions on gss-proxy@lists.fedorahosted.org
>
> Remaining question:
>
> Prior to RHEL-9 , in the section of the gssd man page ( under the heading
> CONFIGURATION FILE ...  ....options  that  can be set on the command line
> can also be controlled through .... values set in the [gssd] section of
> /etc/nfs.conf ) there was a configuration parameter "use-gss-proxy"

I don't see any git history of gssd.man with use-gss-proxy, but the value
does appear in nfs.conf.man.  It has not been removed there.  It probably
should be added to gssd.man.

> why was this parameter removed from the current man page, can it be
> re-added ?  ( apparently the parameter is still functional ... if that's
> the case , it should not simply be removed from the documentation with no
> commentary )

I'm not sure thats what happened.  It looks like it wasn't ever in gssd.man
to me.  Maybe Steve D can clarify?

Ben