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Message-ID: <1321641333.2653.15.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> 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/
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