Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 12:38:46 -0400
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>, Zdenek Salvet <salvet@ics.muni.cz>,
        "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFSv4 backchannel authentication
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:30:53PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 18:28 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:53:01PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> > > How is this any different to requiring that the user start rpc.statd
> > > before launching an NFSv3 mount? Just document the requirement if it
> > > isn't already clear enough, and we can move on.
> > > 
> > > The other source of confusion here, was that the rpc.svcgssd was
> > > delivered through a nfs-kernel-server package, which indicates that we
> > > first and foremost need to educate the distro packagers.
> > 
> > hmm, if both rpc.gssd and rpc.svcgssd are needed on clients and servers, isn't
> > it worth of merging them into a single process?
> 
> You don't need rpc.gssd to use rpcsec_gss with NFSv3, nor do you need it
		 ^^^^^^^^

You meant rpc.svcgssd, unless you were thinking about the nfsd side.

> if you're not intending on using delegations with NFSv4.

Though the default should be to support delegations.

--b.