[OpenAFS-devel] Re: openafs / opendfs collaboration

[Kyle Moffett]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Rich Salz wrote:
> Is there an easy link to where I can find out about the "linux 2.5
> keyring" stuff?  From name alone, it doesn't sound great.  Ivan's note
> about UID's seems right-on.

The keyring stuff essentially allows you to associate arbitrary BLOBs 
with
processes via a simple kernel interface.  OpenAFS could store the 
credentials
in a session keyring and all processes in that session would have 
access to
the credentials.  Then OpenAFS could just run a key search for the 
credentials
when it needs to perform operations (Such as passing them to the 
server) with
them.  It's very fast, simple, and well designed

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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