[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

[Derek Atkins]

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> PAGs have nothing to do with ACLs.  They are used for controlling what
> processed have access to what tokens in the kernel.
> 
> A very reasonable solution was presented to linux-kernel. The problem is
> that they all insisted on blowing it up into the nightmarish key
> management system instead of just treating PAGs as the simple construct
> that they are - which the patch did in a pretty reasonable manner.

To play devil's advocate, the proposed solution worked for AFS but
nothing else..  PAGs from AFS would/could interfere with PAGs from
NFS, for example.  I don't recall a decent solution to that problem.

> -- Nathan

-derek

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