On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:23:22 -0400 Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That is correct. This patch is no longer needed. Thanks, NeilBrown
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