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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Use correct NFSv4.0 callback credential
From: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
To: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 16:42:38 -0400
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On Fri, 2018-05-18 at 16:19 -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> I think the srchost is needed only if we are going to deal with doing
> something cross-DNS domains so say if
> host@klim.ib.1015granger.net will authenticate to
> nfs@klim.roce.1015granger.net, then the target's domain would not be
> sufficient to match which source domain name to use. So if this the
> use case, then sorry I just had to think out-loud to get here, then we
> do need srcdomain (and it's really a domain isn't it and not host
> that's of interest?).

I am confused about your use of the term "domain" here.

Can you use either REALM or hostname appropriately ?

Or are you using the term "domain" to mean FQDN ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc