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| author | Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> | 2020-01-29 01:49:15 -0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-02-13 11:21:28 -0700 |
| commit | 250baf06aacf4eafb5641c86c91f2b1df4cf7d86 (patch) | |
| tree | 235db597735c1d68f2a4ef4f897190b97d83878c | |
| parent | f0bf8a988b26e75cc6fc28a44a745cb354a2b5a6 (diff) | |
Documentation: nfs: rpc-server-gss: convert to ReST
Convert rpc-server-gss.txt to ReST. Content remains mostly unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200129044917.566906-4-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.txt) | 19 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/index.rst index 52f4956e7770..9d5365cbe2c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/index.rst @@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ NFS pnfs rpc-cache + rpc-server-gss diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst index 310bbbaf9080..812754576845 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - +========================================= rpcsec_gss support for kernel RPC servers ========================================= @@ -9,14 +9,17 @@ NFSv4.1 and higher don't require the client to act as a server for the purposes of authentication.) RPCGSS is specified in a few IETF documents: + - RFC2203 v1: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2203.txt - RFC5403 v2: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5403.txt + and there is a 3rd version being proposed: + - http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-williams-rpcsecgssv3.txt (At draft n. 02 at the time of writing) Background ----------- +========== The RPCGSS Authentication method describes a way to perform GSSAPI Authentication for NFS. Although GSSAPI is itself completely mechanism @@ -29,6 +32,7 @@ depends on GSSAPI extensions that are KRB5 specific. GSSAPI is a complex library, and implementing it completely in kernel is unwarranted. However GSSAPI operations are fundementally separable in 2 parts: + - initial context establishment - integrity/privacy protection (signing and encrypting of individual packets) @@ -41,7 +45,7 @@ kernel, but leave the initial context establishment to userspace. We need upcalls to request userspace to perform context establishment. NFS Server Legacy Upcall Mechanism ----------------------------------- +================================== The classic upcall mechanism uses a custom text based upcall mechanism to talk to a custom daemon called rpc.svcgssd that is provide by the @@ -62,21 +66,20 @@ groups) due to limitation on the size of the buffer that can be send back to the kernel (4KiB). NFS Server New RPC Upcall Mechanism ------------------------------------ +=================================== The newer upcall mechanism uses RPC over a unix socket to a daemon called gss-proxy, implemented by a userspace program called Gssproxy. -The gss_proxy RPC protocol is currently documented here: - - https://fedorahosted.org/gss-proxy/wiki/ProtocolDocumentation +The gss_proxy RPC protocol is currently documented `here +<https://fedorahosted.org/gss-proxy/wiki/ProtocolDocumentation>`_. This upcall mechanism uses the kernel rpc client and connects to the gssproxy userspace program over a regular unix socket. The gssproxy protocol does not suffer from the size limitations of the legacy protocol. Negotiating Upcall Mechanisms ------------------------------ +============================= To provide backward compatibility, the kernel defaults to using the legacy mechanism. To switch to the new mechanism, gss-proxy must bind |