linux/Documentation/filesystems/nfs
Simo Sorce 030d794bf4 SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.
The main advantge of this new upcall mechanism is that it can handle
big tickets as seen in Kerberos implementations where tickets carry
authorization data like the MS-PAC buffer with AD or the Posix Authorization
Data being discussed in IETF on the krbwg working group.

The Gssproxy program is used to perform the accept_sec_context call on the
kernel's behalf. The code is changed to also pass the input buffer straight
to upcall mechanism to avoid allocating and copying many pages as tokens can
be as big (potentially more in future) as 64KiB.

Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
[bfields: containerization, negotiation api]
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2013-04-26 11:41:28 -04:00
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00-INDEX SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication. 2013-04-26 11:41:28 -04:00
Exporting Documentation: Exporting: update description of d_splice_alias 2011-07-26 12:57:09 -04:00
fault_injection.txt NFSD: Added fault injection documentation 2011-11-07 21:10:47 -05:00
idmapper.txt NFS: Update idmapper documentation 2012-02-06 18:48:01 -05:00
knfsd-stats.txt nfs: move more to Documentation/filesystems/nfs 2009-11-06 14:01:02 -05:00
nfs41-server.txt nfsd4: delay filling in write iovec array till after xdr decoding 2012-11-26 09:08:15 -05:00
nfs-rdma.txt nfs: new subdir Documentation/filesystems/nfs 2009-10-27 19:34:04 -04:00
nfs.txt NFS: Add nfs4_unique_id boot parameter 2012-10-01 15:33:33 -07:00
nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd configuration 2012-08-21 17:42:03 -04:00
nfsroot.txt ipconfig: add nameserver IPs to kernel-parameter ip= 2012-09-21 14:51:21 -04:00
pnfs.txt Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation 2012-04-16 14:37:13 +02:00
rpc-cache.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
rpc-server-gss.txt SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication. 2013-04-26 11:41:28 -04:00