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| author | Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com> | 2012-05-25 18:09:56 -0400 |
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| committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> | 2013-04-26 11:41:28 -0400 |
| commit | 030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b (patch) | |
| tree | b92b6fecf0856d48d232f266d7ac7e2b0ff09a17 /Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX | |
| parent | 1d658336b05f8697d6445834f8867f8ad5e4f735 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-030d794bf49855f5e2a9e8dfbfad34211d1eb08b.tar.gz | |
SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.
The main advantge of this new upcall mechanism is that it can handle
big tickets as seen in Kerberos implementations where tickets carry
authorization data like the MS-PAC buffer with AD or the Posix Authorization
Data being discussed in IETF on the krbwg working group.
The Gssproxy program is used to perform the accept_sec_context call on the
kernel's behalf. The code is changed to also pass the input buffer straight
to upcall mechanism to avoid allocating and copying many pages as tokens can
be as big (potentially more in future) as 64KiB.
Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
[bfields: containerization, negotiation api]
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX index 1716874a651e..66eb6c8c5334 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX @@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ rpc-cache.txt - introduction to the caching mechanisms in the sunrpc layer. idmapper.txt - information for configuring request-keys to be used by idmapper +knfsd-rpcgss.txt + - Information on GSS authentication support in the NFS Server |