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

Mike Fedyk mfedyk@matchmail.com
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:07:52 -0700


Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

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> On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:48:16 -0700 Mike Fedyk 
> <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
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>> David Thompson wrote:
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>>> Because the current implementation doesn't know what PAGs currently
>>> exist, it
>>>
>> Is that true on all platforms?
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> It is true on all platforms that nothing knows what PAG ID's exist.
> Processes, tokens, and other auth-context-dependent data are all 
> labelled with PAG ID's.  New ID's are allocated in sequence.

So, you don't even know if a pag id is in use in the much lauded aix pag 
implementation?