[OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel Authentication Tokens (PAGs)

John S. Bucy bucy-openafs-devel@gloop.org
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:03:01 -0400


On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:17:51PM +0200, Tomas Olsson wrote:

> My main problem with the last lkml patch I saw is that session keyrings are
> cleared for "SUID programs and setuid()/setreuid()/setresuid()". I can see
> that this functionality is handy for some daemons, so those semantics won't
> change. If we want something else, we'd better have some good and
> obviously valid arguments.

In the current proposal which I believe Kyle Moffett is coding up
right now, setuid() and co. don't do anything with the keyrings. 




john