2002-10-04 15:50:47

by David Howells

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


> 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?

I would if I could, but RxRPC is a sufficiently different protocol to make
that impractical:-/

David


2002-10-04 15:57:47

by Trond Myklebust

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

>>>>> " " == David Howells <[email protected]> writes:

>> 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?

> I would if I could, but RxRPC is a sufficiently different
> protocol to make that impractical:-/

How badly does it differ? If you are talking only about a couple of
differences in the RPC headers, then that is something that can easily
be overcome...

Cheers,
Trond