linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches

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Message-ID: <7261.1375462945@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:02:25 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Simo Sorce <simo@...hat.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	keyrings@...ux-nfs.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, krbdev@....edu,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches

Simo Sorce <simo@...hat.com> wrote:

> > Simo:  I believe the problem you have with the user keyring is that it's not
> > persistent beyond the life of the processes of that UID, right?
> 
> Correct.

In which case, pinning the user keyring in this fashion should make this work
without the need to add another keyctl, I think.

David
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