[OpenAFS] my afs wish list

Jim Rees rees@umich.edu
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:19:01 -0400


Our (citi's) rpcsec_gss is already in the linux 2.5 kernel.  There is a
relatively small kernel part that does the bulk data encryption, and a user
mode daemon that does all the hard stuff like establishing security
contexts.  It is currently only used by NFSv4, but our intent was to have it
be useful for other clients.  We specifically had afs in mind.

There is code and documentation here:

http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/

At one point we started working on afs over rpcsec_gss, but the student who
was doing the work left.