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From: Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, mingo@redhat.com, arjanv@redhat.com,
	alan@redhat.com, viro@math.psu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux authentication / credential management
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:58:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030409115835.A1603@figure1.int.wirex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3946.1049901134@warthog.warthog>; from dhowells@redhat.com on Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:12:14PM +0100

* David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> Would you be willing to consider having a "credential cache" in Linux 2.5 (or
> is this something you'd rather leave to 2.7)?

Did you look at the vfs_cred patch that Trond was floating before
feature freeze?  It doesn't have the session bit, but has the credential
cache, modelled from BSD credentials.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103081213416497&w=2

and the ucred patch which lead to this thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103074971719243&w=2

It's certainly simpler, but could it be used as a starting point?

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-09 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-09 15:12 Linux authentication / credential management David Howells
2003-04-09 18:58 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2003-04-09 19:39 ` Jan Harkes

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