Re: [PATCH 0/2] Use the gssproxy damon for GSSAPI credentials

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:11:22 -0400
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:36:17 -0400
> > "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:31:17PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On 09/19/2014 11:57 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 08:51:41AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > > > >> The gssproxy(8) daemon is now how the managing of GSSAPI 
> > > > >> credentials should be done. 
> > > > >>
> > > > >> These to patches has the nfs-server systemd script start 
> > > > >> gssproxy instead of rpc.svcgssd and removes the building 
> > > > >> and installation of rpc.svcgssd.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> For now I'm leaving the source files... Just in case... ;-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > If nothing else, we'd like to keep support for older kernels
> > > > > for a while.
> > > > Good point... I should probably make this a configurable...
> > > > something like --enable_svcgssd and have it off by default...
> > > 
> > > Sounds fine.
> > 
> > +1, it will be very useful for transitions in distributions, not
> > all of them will align identically I guess.
> 
> If we wanted to be *very* nice, we could try to detect and run one or
> the other at run-time.  It's nice for people trying to boot old
> kernels to track down (probably unrelated) regressions.  But I think
> it would be too complicated.
> 
> It might be simple enough for gss-proxy to log some kind of warning
> when it starts up on an old kernel.

Excellent idea, I opened a ticket to track that:
https://fedorahosted.org/gss-proxy/ticket/126

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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