lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:35:33 +0200
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	John Hughes <john@...va.COM>
Cc:	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "-e" option to rpc.gssd to allow error on ticket
 expiry. Try 2 with added man pages.

On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 15:34 +0100, John Hughes wrote: 
> Description: Add "-e" (ticket expiry is error) option to rpc.gssd
>   In kernels starting around 2.6.34 the nfs4 server will block all I/O
>   when a user ticket expires.  In earlier kernels the I/O would fail
>   with an EACCESS error.  This patch adds a "-e" option to rpc.gssd
>   which allow the earlier behaviour (EKEYEXPIRED is converted to
>   EACCESS).  This behaviour is particularly useful when user home
>   directories are nfs4 mounted with krb5 security - if the user is
>   absent from their workstation for long enough for the ticket to
>   expire a new ticket will be obtained (via pam_krb5) by the screen
>   unlock process.

You need a big fat warning somewhere that enabling this option WILL
cause data corruption...

Trond
-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
www.netapp.com

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ