[OpenAFS-devel] Linux access key retention support and OpenAFS

[Troy Benjegerdes]

> >Recent Linux kernel (> 2.6.9 ?)  have support for storing keys and tokens 
> >in
> >the kernel memory space. See linux/Documentation/keys.txt.
> >
> >I believe this is the work of David Howells whom I assume is also on the
> >present mailing list.
> >
> >I was wondering if this could somehow be used by the OpenAFS afs client for
> >storing AFS tokens ?
> 
> I have a substantially complete patch for this which was stymied by lack 
> of export of certain symbols. Rather than pursue it, my understanding iss 
> someone is working on a kerberos 5 ticket file backend using keyring. My 
> hope is to use that when complete directly (for now, anyway, since we can, 
> there being a single ticket for any cell for afs)

What symbols do you need? Is this a patch to openafs, or to the kernel?
Can you post it someplace?