Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263315AbTEMSry (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 14:47:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263293AbTEMSrx (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 14:47:53 -0400 Received: from mrelay1.cc.umr.edu ([131.151.1.120]:44503 "EHLO smtp.umr.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263285AbTEMSrg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 14:47:36 -0400 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:00:14 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support Thread-Index: AcMZgRFxFY/CRjQBRoyEBiwqeZDfQAAAJOLA From: "Neulinger, Nathan" To: "David Howells" , "Jan Harkes" Cc: "David Howells" , "Linus Torvalds" , , , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 920 Lines: 23 > > > (2) gettok(const char *fs, const char *key, size_t size, > void *buffer) > > > > > > Get a copy of an authentication token. > > > > Not sure what the use of this is for userspace. I can see how your > > kernel module would use it. > > OpenAFS has it, but I'm not sure what uses it. Any afs user space tool that needs to talk to file servers - such as all the administration utilities - vos, bos, pts, etc. Eventually they could use kerberos cred caches directly, but not until they are converted to kerberos. Right now, they fetch the current auth data from the kernel and use it to authenticate to whatever non-kernel service they are talking to. -- Nathan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/