NFSv4 server running on RHEL 5.1

[Ido Levy]

Steve,

Do you intend to include support for the following issue in RHEL 5.2 :

The current version of rpc.gssd that is shipped with RHEL 5.1 ( as part of
the nfs-utils package )
is different from nfs-utils-1.0.11 as described by Kevin Coffman:

"The latest versions of rpc.gssd look at file ownership rather than the
name.  (It does narrow the field by looking for "krb5cc_*", then
looking at file ownership.)  This change went into nfs-utils-1.0.11.

Unfortunately, gssd has no access to the user's environment variables
and cannot use that to determine the credentials cache file to use
when creating a context.

K.C."


Thanks,

Ido Levy

nfsv4-bounces at linux-nfs.org wrote on 02/06/2008 08:55:33 PM:

> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:26:52PM +0200, Ido Levy wrote:
> >> Steve,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the input.
> >>
> >> Will RHEL 5.2 include updates for nfs-utils packages as well and
> >> if yes could you point me to some reference describing the updates.
> >>
> >
> > Red Hat will undoubtedly stick to the 1.0.9 base, but I'm hopeful
> > they'll backport some features.  Psuedo root in particular, although I
> > realize it probably still needs much testing so maybe 5.3.
> This is true... we will be staying with the 1.0.9 base but will
> add features as need. For example the recent SECINFO support
> will be in the 5.2 update release (thank you Frank Filz for all
> the help on this)
>
> On very nice side effect of doing the Pseudo root in user land
> is it can easily be back ported to RHEL5, which I would be
> all for.. assuming I can get those patches working with some
> recent changes to the mainline nfs-utils... which has proved
> to be a bit difficult :-\
>
> >
> > It _sounds_ like they are considering it based on the feedback from the
> > RFE I submitted.
> Yes, we are more than will consider any and all suggestions on
> any and all features... As long as they don't change the Kernel
> ABI (kABI) we can talk about it... Plus I'm a firm believer in
> bribery... a well place bottle of scotch will always help the
> process.. ;-) (just kidding)
>
>
> steved.
>
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