Re: Extracting out the gss/krb5 support in sunrpc

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On Tue, 2021-05-11 at 15:46 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Hi Trond,
> 
> I'm looking at extracting out the gssapi/krb5 support from the sunrpc
> package
> in the kernel into a common library under crypto/ so that afs (and
> anyone else
> - cifs, maybe) can use it too.  Are you willing to entertain that
> idea - or is
> that a definite no for you?
> 
> David
> 

Moving the code out of net/sunrpc into a shared directory would be fine
with me.
Note, though, that what's there is a rather old port of the MIT
kerberos library that was done by CITI around 2001/2002 (IIRC), so it
might be due for an update at some point.

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx






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