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

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Tue, 31 May 2005 08:34:14 -0500


> I have a substantially complete patch for this which was=20
> stymied by lack=20
> of export of certain symbols. Rather than pursue it, my=20
> understanding iss=20
> someone is working on a kerberos 5 ticket file backend using=20
> keyring. My=20
> hope is to use that when complete directly (for now, anyway,=20
> since we can,=20
> there being a single ticket for any cell for afs)
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Are you sure you want to take that route "...there being a single
ticket..." - I thought one of the longer term goals was to get to where
each fileserver had it's own key? (or is that just a pie in the sky
goal?)

-- Nathan


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