Re: [PATCH 1/2] nfs-service: Added the starting of gssproxy

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:07:16AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> On 09/23/2014 05:15 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > 
> > On 09/23/2014 04:25 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >>> I through this into my test world
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>>> and one side effect of this patch
> >>>> is both rpc.gssd and rpc.svcgssd daemons are *always* started when 
> >>>> a key tab exists (/etc/krb5.keytab) and *all* the services (nfs-client,
> >>>> nfs-server, rpc-gssd, and rpc-svcgssd) are disabled, which is not 
> >>>> good... Those daemons don't need to be started when both sides 
> >>>> are disabled...  But the auth_rpcgss is loaded! ;-) 
> >> Weird.  I can't see how this patch on its own would have any effect on
> >> that.
> It turns out I must have had the nfs-client.target enabled... 
> 
> I just realize 'systemctl disable nfs-client' does not fail, 
> but it does not do anything either. :-( I would think 
> it should fail with some type of "unit not found", but it
> does not... 
> 
> 'systemctl disable nfs-client.target' was the command I
> wanted to disable the client, so your patch works... 
> 
> Question, Why is rpc.svcgssd/gssproxy when only the 
> nfs-client is enabled??

It handles NFSv4.0/krb5 callbacks.

(It's not needed for NFSv4.1+, and even in the 4.0 case the only
consequence is that you'll lose delegations on krb5 mounts.  So maybe
we'll be able to remove that dependency, one of these decades....)

--b.
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