Re: [PATCH] AFS filesystem for Linux (2/2)

Trond Myklebust
2002-10-04T15:49:11Z

>>>>> " " == David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com> writes:

>> NFSv4 does indeed require the full kerberos encryption stuff in
>> the kernel. The RFC specifies that krb5 support is a minimum
>> requirement, and we will expect to have that in 2.6 (or 3.0 or
>> whatever it's called these days...)

> Might this be something I can make use of for my AFS filesystem
> too?

Possibly. Our intention is to integrate the RPCSEC_GSS security
protocol (see RFC2203) into the sunrpc code, then use krb5 as one of
the authentication flavours.

Whereas I doubt that AFS uses RPCSEC_GSS, I believe that the kerberos
code itself (+ upcall mechanism for getting user tokens etc.) could be
reused by you. I presume that you would make use of the sunrpc code
too?

Cheers,
Trond