[Labeled-nfs] Labeled RPC & NFS

Matthew N. Dodd Matthew.Dodd at sparta.com
Mon Jan 14 16:05:04 EST 2008


James Morris wrote:
> It pretty much needs to "just work".  Enabling MAC on NFS should not mean 
> having to change authentication schemes, especially to something 
> potentially less secure.

We're somewhat limited by our inability to inject random context data 
into the GSS_RPC stream.

As I've mentioned before, even if you solve this the current code caches 
credential data by UID, which makes it difficult to support processes of 
differing labels running under the same UID.

Now, we could bump RPC_GSS_VERSION, add a flags field and TLVs to hold 
the label, but that involves a whole lot of buy-in.

Solving this up at the NFS layer has its own problems.


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