NFSv4 + Kerberos + users

J. Bruce Fields bfields at fieldses.org
Fri Jun 22 18:13:39 EDT 2007


On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:17:55PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Wouldn't you know, just by coincidence when I walked in this morning and
> turned on my desktop I found all access to my home directory denied with
> a permissions error which a kinit wouldn't fix.  It appears the server
> is returning GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT to everything.  I'm burrowing into the
> code at the moment.
> 
> I've seen similar before occasionally too, but never found a way to
> reproduce it reliably.  So, if somebody has one, that's excellent news.
> I'll see if I can come up with a patch, or at least suggest some
> debugging.

Bah, OK, I haven't managed to figure out anything, and the problem I was
seeing went away on its own eventually.  So, I'm not sure what to
suggest.  Perhaps I can cook up a patch with some extra printk's that
could give us some more information next time we hit that problem.

--b.


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