Re: Linux authentication / credential management

Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:58:35 -0700

* David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) wrote:
>
> Would you be willing to consider having a "credential cache" in Linux 2.5 (or
> is this something you'd rather leave to 2.7)?

Did you look at the vfs_cred patch that Trond was floating before
feature freeze? It doesn't have the session bit, but has the credential
cache, modelled from BSD credentials.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103081213416497&w=2

and the ucred patch which lead to this thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103074971719243&w=2

It's certainly simpler, but could it be used as a starting point?

thanks,
-chris

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