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Simo Sorce 030d794bf4 SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.
The main advantge of this new upcall mechanism is that it can handle
big tickets as seen in Kerberos implementations where tickets carry
authorization data like the MS-PAC buffer with AD or the Posix Authorization
Data being discussed in IETF on the krbwg working group.

The Gssproxy program is used to perform the accept_sec_context call on the
kernel's behalf. The code is changed to also pass the input buffer straight
to upcall mechanism to avoid allocating and copying many pages as tokens can
be as big (potentially more in future) as 64KiB.

Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
[bfields: containerization, negotiation api]
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2013-04-26 11:41:28 -04:00

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00-INDEX
- this file (nfs-related documentation).
Exporting
- explanation of how to make filesystems exportable.
fault_injection.txt
- information for using fault injection on the server
knfsd-stats.txt
- statistics which the NFS server makes available to user space.
nfs.txt
- nfs client, and DNS resolution for fs_locations.
nfs41-server.txt
- info on the Linux server implementation of NFSv4 minor version 1.
nfs-rdma.txt
- how to install and setup the Linux NFS/RDMA client and server software
nfsroot.txt
- short guide on setting up a diskless box with NFS root filesystem.
pnfs.txt
- short explanation of some of the internals of the pnfs client code
rpc-cache.txt
- introduction to the caching mechanisms in the sunrpc layer.
idmapper.txt
- information for configuring request-keys to be used by idmapper
knfsd-rpcgss.txt
- Information on GSS authentication support in the NFS Server