[OpenAFS-devel] PAGs/tokens/threads

Jeffrey Altman jaltman@secure-endpoints.com
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:11:12 -0400


Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
> calling it a pag is a misnomer though at this point.  oh well.

What we are discussing is not a PAG but a Thread Authentication
Credential which when set overrides the process credential as obtained
from the PAG or uid.

I believe this should be implemented as a separate interface, settac()
as it really isn't a PAG at all.

Jeffrey Altman