[OpenAFS-devel] interesting issue with setgroups wrapper...

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Thu, 23 May 2002 10:54:29 -0500


Not between multiple users, between the user, and anonymous
non-user-based connections on the same smb session. (All that screwy
stuff windows does with multiple samba connections from the same PC.)

The assumption is that a single smbd has a single afs authentication
context is still kept.

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chas williams [mailto:chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil]=20
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:39 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] interesting issue with setgroups=20
> wrapper...=20
>=20
>=20
> >It's not at startup... it's during execution, likely in response to
> >something going on with one of the IPC$ shares or similar as=20
> anonymous
> >access over same connection or similar.=20
>=20
> isnt samba single threaded?  is swapping around the group context but
> unable to restore it properly (since that information is discarded).
>=20