nfs4 on FreeBSD

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 12 07:36:59 PDT 2005


On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Doug Rabson wrote:

>> i'm beginning to look at the FreeBSD NFS client to think about how to 
>> finish the nascent NFSv4 and RPCGSS implementation.  it's a slow start 
>> though.
>
> I have a working userland RPCSEC_GSS implementation which follows the 
> Solaris api for gss-specific extensions to the RPC api (e.g. 
> rpc_gcc_get_mechanisms(), rpc_gss_set_svc_name(), rpc_gss_getcred() 
> etc.).
>
> I also have a working GSSAPI redirector which allows the use of multiple 
> GSSAPI mechanisms, such as SPKEY which is required by the spec. It even 
> includes an almost complete set of manpages culled from the RFC.

Are any of you planning at being at EuroBSDCon?  What with a FreeBSD 
developer summit happening about the same time, it would make sense to get 
NFSv4-interested people in one place.

Robert N M Watson


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