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GSS-API /NFS/ Solaris 2.6 non-issue.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Apr 14 13:10:03 1998
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:09:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
At some point the question was asked, if we support the Kerberized NFS
with the GSS-API in Solaris 2.6, is there a point to continuing to
support porting Athena-style Kerberized NFS on Solaris.
According to the GSS-API development team:
Excerpts from mail: 14-Apr-98 Solaris 2.7 SRT Q&A Barry
Cooks@cosmic.Eng.S (32078*)
> There is no support for GSS-API in 2.6. I talked again with the
> GSS-API project lead and he confirmed this. So the information
> in whatever white paper [2.6 release notes?] is wrong.
With Solaris 2.7, the support is planned to be:
Excerpts from mail: 14-Apr-98 Solaris 2.7 SRT Q&A Barry
Cooks@cosmic.Eng.S (32078*)
> it's not used in 2.7. a future unbundled product for 2.7 will use it
> via rpcsec_gss to provide krb5 security to NFS.
> the rpcsec_gss interfaces provide gss services to rpc
> applications without exposing gss-api.
> except rpc, nothing else in solaris or any other sun product uses gss-api
> directly.
-wdc
