Extracting out the gss/krb5 support in sunrpc
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Hi Trond,
I'm looking at extracting out the gssapi/krb5 support from the sunrpc package in the kernel into a common library under crypto/ so that afs (and anyone else
- cifs, maybe) can use it too. Are you willing to entertain that idea - or is that a definite no for you?
David
Quoted 10 lines · David Howells
Hi Trond,
I'm looking at extracting out the gssapi/krb5 support from the sunrpc package
in the kernel into a common library undercrypto/so that afs (and anyone else
- cifs, maybe) can use it too. Are you willing to entertain that idea - or is
that a definite no for you?
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David
Moving the code out of net/sunrpc into a shared directory would be fine with me.
Note, though, that what's there is a rather old port of the MIT kerberos library that was done by CITI around 2001/2002 (IIRC), so it might be due for an update at some point.
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Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace [email protected]
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Quoted 10 lines · David Howells
Hi Trond,
I'm looking at extracting out the gssapi/krb5 support from the sunrpc package
in the kernel into a common library undercrypto/so that afs (and anyone else
- cifs, maybe) can use it too. Are you willing to entertain that idea - or is
that a definite no for you?
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David
Moving the code out of net/sunrpc into a shared directory would be fine with me.
Note, though, that what's there is a rather old port of the MIT kerberos library that was done by CITI around 2001/2002 (IIRC), so it might be due for an update at some point.
Would be nice to allocate legitimate SPDX tags for those old licenses if that code isn't going to be replaced.
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Chuck Lever