From: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
To: "dhowells@redhat.com" <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extracting out the gss/krb5 support in sunrpc
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 15:14:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7050fe7c8952be103cc65e27f63fdb148155672.camel@hammerspace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2581831.1620744410@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Tue, 2021-05-11 at 15:46 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 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
>
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.
--
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-11 14:46 Extracting out the gss/krb5 support in sunrpc David Howells
2021-05-11 15:14 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2021-05-11 15:17 ` Chuck Lever III
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