Neil, On 02/06/13 21:00, Neil Brown wrote: > Since linux-3.7, the kernel asks explicitly for machine credentials > rather than root credentials to authenticate state management requests. > > This causes a regression for people who do not have machine > credentials configured and were using "gssd -n" to instruct gssd to > disable the default mapping of using machine credentials to authorise > accesses by 'root'. > > This patch adds '-N' flag which instruct gssd explicitly to use 'root' > credentials whenever 'machine' credentials are requested. Thus > gssd -n -N > provides the same service that > gssd -n > used to. > > In summary: > > Credentials used for different request types and different gssd flags: > > Request type: | "gssd" "gssd -n" "gssd -N" "gssd -nN" > | > machine | machine machine root root > | > root | machine root machine root > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> So is this no longer needed do the kernel change you and Chuck came up with? steved. -- 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
