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

[Derrick J Brashear]

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On Mon, 30 May 2005, André Balsa wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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)

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