> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:59:29 -0700 > raini@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> > You and Kevin are correct. rpc.gssd only looks at the mtime. When I >> did >> > the work to allow the CIFS SPNGEO upcall to find alternate credcaches, >> > I implemented the behavior I described (prefer the latest TGT >> > expiration) -- sorry for the confusion... >> > >> > It probably wouldn't be too hard to change rpc.gssd to prefer >> > credcaches with the latest TGT expiration if it was considered a >> > desirable change. >> > >> > Kevin, any thoughts? >> >> This would be a big plus from me - I still wouldn't be able to create >> per-job ccaches of course, but if a user who knew they needed to run a >> job >> could create a long lifetime renewable ticket in >> /tmp/krb5cc_<uid>_batch, >> say, and NFS would use this in preference to a later login ticket, this >> would really help. > > Ok, here's a proposed patch...only compile-tested so far. I don't have > time at the moment to test it more extensively so if you could test it > out and report back, that would be helpful. Thanks Jeff - this looks extremely useful, caveat my other comment (and perhaps lack of understanding) on the list today about what's happened in recent nfs-utils which I'd like to clarify. I may have trouble testing this in the short term as I'm largely bound to production environments - but will get to back to you if I can. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
