Re: Extracting out the gss/krb5 support in sunrpc

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> On May 11, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Would be nice to allocate legitimate SPDX tags for those old licenses
if that code isn't going to be replaced.

--
Chuck Lever







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