From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Secure user authentication for NFS using RPCSEC_GSS [0/6]
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:50:20 +0100
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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>>>>> " " == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

     > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:19:51PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    >> OTOH why not do all this authentication and stuff in userspace?

     > Please forgive me: ENOCAFFEINE.  I re-read your mail...

Right. This is doing exactly what you suggested ;-).

All that is added to the kernel is the code that we need to repackage
a user context that was negotiated in userspace into the RPC header.

Cheers,
  Trond