Re: gss context cache

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:00:00AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:06:47 +0100
> Michael Gliwinski <Michael.Gliwinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > On RHEL6 nfs-utils-1.2.3-36
> > 
> > man rpc.gssd says it -t wasn't specified then kernel gss contexts will be 
> > cached for the lifettime of the Kerberos service ticket used in its creation.  
> > Is there a way to see the contexts + service tickets in that cache?
> > 
> 
> No, AFAIK.
> 
> > Also, is there any way short of rebooting the client to evict one entry from 
> > that cache, or even clear the cache entirely?
> > 
> 
> There is a gss_destroy_creds script which ships as part of nfs-utils.
> That should basically do what you need, but it's not well-documented so
> you'll have to play with it some...

My memory is that depended on some undocumented feature of the upcall
since removed.  (Maybe the ability to send a downcall that isn't a
response to some upcall?)  But I may be misremembering.  Somebody should
probably check and remove that script (and gss_cltn_send_err) if I'm
right.

--b.
> 
> > (looking for this as I had situations where access was denied by the NFS 
> > server and I could see the principal was getting mapped to nfsnobody, etc. and 
> > was suspecting the account was changed on the KDC and the old context/ticket 
> > may have been causing problems)
> > 
> 
> 
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