Re: [round2 PATCH 0/7] nfs-utils: add support for authenticated callbacks

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Steve Dickson<SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kevin Coffman wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> This series adds support to gssd and svcgssd to support
>> authenticated callbacks.
>>
>> 1) adds the name the client used when authenticating to the
>> svcgssd downcall information.  This is used by nfsd to determine
>> the target name when initiating the callback.
>>
>> 2) splits out the processing of update_client_list() to accomodate
>> a new upcall pipe added in the next patch.
>>
>> 3) changes gssd to process all rpc_pipefs directories (this patch is
>> changed from the first round to process all directories rather than
>> special-casing directories)
>>
>> 4) a debugging aid to distinquish which upcall is being processed
>>
>> 6) adds support for handling the "target=" attribute in the new upcall
>>
>> 7) adds support for handling the "service=" attribute in the new upcall
>>
>> NOTE:  For authenticated callbacks to work, an NFS client or an
>> NFS server must be running both rpcgssd _and_ rpcsvcgssd.
>> This will require a configuration change.
>
> Question, How are authenticated callbacks are not configured?
> Also do both daemons have to be running if authenticated
> callbacks are not configured?
>
> steved.

Hi Steve,
AFAIK, there isn't a way to turn off the attempt to do the
authenticated callback.  I think that's what you mean by how are they
not configured?

So for example, if the nfs client is not running svcgssd, the server
will attempt the callback (with authentication), and the upcall
request will time out and fail.  If the NFS server is not running
gssd, when it attempts to establish the callback its upcall to gssd
will time out and you'll get the printks warning that the daemon is
not running.

K.C.
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