On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:42 PM David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> wrote: > > > So you missed the main mailing lists for discussion of this kind of > > thing > > Yeah, sorry about that. I was primarily aiming it at Trond and Steve as I'd > like to consider how to go about interpolating request_key() into NFS and CIFS > so that they can make use of the key-related facilities that this makes > available with AFS.
I am interested in this discussion because I have gotten various questions about using Containers better on SMB3 mounts, and the question about doing request_key better comes up **a lot** on SMB3 mounts (not just for kerberos, Active Directory), and usability could be improved of some of the cifs-utils that cifs.ko depends on. Note that various virtualization/container identify features were added to the protocol a few years ago (which we don't yet implement in Linux) but which probably be **very** useful to followup on how these could be exposed to help containers on network mounts in Linux. See in particular this new protocol feature (implemented by various servers including Windows but not by Linux client yet) described in the protocol spec (MS-SMB2 section 2.2.9.2.1) - the "SMB2_REMOTED_IDENTITY_TREE_CONNECT context" which can be sent at mount time: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-smb2/ee7ff411-93e0-484f-9f73-31916fee4cb8 This may be of interest to Samba server developers as well > > and the maintainer. > > That would be me. I maintain keyrings. -- Thanks, Steve
