[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?