[OpenAFS-devel] fwd: [OT] Mailing list set up for discussion of kernel keyring implementation + util

[Kevin Coffman]

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Kevin Coffman wrote:
> 
> >
> > It would be nice to have some discussion about how OpenAFS plans to use
> > the keyring.
> 
> As long as the discussion is clear from the start that we are looking for 
> a session semantic, one where key access is not tied to a uid, but instead 
> that the key can (and is) shared across uids if those uids are in the same 
> session, and that a single uid may be in more than one disjoint session.
> 
> Derrick

Yes, we want the same semantics as AFS/DFS for NFSv4 as well.

I think the keyring code supplies enough rope to accomplish this.