From: Nicolas Williams (Nicolas.Williams@sun.com)
Date: 10/01/03-11:57:54 PM Z
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Subject: Re: [nfsv4] allowed delayed writes via AUTH_GSS Message-ID: <20031002045753.GG6829@binky.central.sun.com> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 21:57:54 -0700 On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:01:36PM -0700, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:44:31PM -0400, rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca wrote: > > [Disclaimer: I'm far from a security or Kerberos wiz, so I might be > > way off the mark here.] > > I've been thinking about delayed writes when using AUTH_GSS some more > > and I think it might be ok in certain situations. (This would seem to > > be nice, since clients with write delegations might delay the writes > > for a very long time. It also gives the client a "more POSIX like" > > semantic, since access is checked at Open only.) > > I think a reasonable compromise is to allow the client's hostbased > principal to renew state on behalf of its users, using the same > CLIENTID. And DELEGRETURN. Unfortunately the client's hostbased principal will generally not be able to perform a DELEGRETURN on behalf of its users. Sigh. Nico -- _______________________________________________ nfsv4 mailing list nfsv4@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nfsv4
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