Re: [PATCH] gssd - expired credentials problem

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On 09/03/13 06:25, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that there is a problem with expired credentials if NFS client's
> time is even few seconds behind KDC's or NFS server's time. Client's kernel
> requests new GSS context but rpc.gssd is happy with existing krb cache as it
> valid according to local time.
> 
> Is there any reason for gssd to check validity of existing cache when kernel
> requests a new context?
> 
> However, it seems that this trivial patch solves this issue.
> 
> 300 is because I believe that clock skew must be within 300sec for kerberos.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@xxxxxxxxx>
Committed...

steved.

> 
> diff -rNu nfs-utils-1.2.7.orig/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c nfs-utils-1.2.7/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c
> --- nfs-utils-1.2.7.orig/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c 2012-11-12 00:01:23.000000000 +0100
> +++ nfs-utils-1.2.7/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c      2013-02-15 16:35:35.652482164 +0100
> @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
>         char kt_name[BUFSIZ];
>         char cc_name[BUFSIZ];
>         int code;
> -       time_t now = time(0);
> +       time_t now = time(0)+300; // workaround for clock skew among NFS server, NFS client and KDC
>         char *cache_type;
>         char *pname = NULL;
>         char *k5err = NULL;
> 
> 
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