[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Need a volunteer to help with a feature summary for 1.4

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:53:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Frank Bagehorn <FBA@zurich.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > I surely would be glad if the keyring stuff found its way into 1.4 even
> > without a more direct Kerberos integration.
> 
> It's got to go into the actual kernel first.  I didn't think that had
> happened yet.

It's in 2.6.11.6.. what's missing for AFS to work with this??

head linux-2.6.11.6/Documentation/keys.txt
                         ============================
                         KERNEL KEY RETENTION SERVICE
                         ============================

This service allows cryptographic keys, authentication tokens, cross-domain
user mappings, and similar to be cached in the kernel for the use of
filesystems other kernel services.

Keyrings are permitted; these are a special type of key that can hold links to
other keys. Processes each have three standard keyring subscriptions that a