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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2008-08-07 13:00:20 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2008-09-29 17:56:56 -0400
commit04716e6621ff4abb422d64ba7b48718f52716a3e (patch)
tree742e2e7b6d4c7cf3a39f504000a49e57fe0b538b /kernel/sys_ni.c
parent5dd248f6f1ffe1f691fd66749e2a3dc8f8eb7b5e (diff)
nfsd: permit unauthenticated stat of export root
RFC 2623 section 2.3.2 permits the server to bypass gss authentication checks for certain operations that a client may perform when mounting. In the case of a client that doesn't have some form of credentials available to it on boot, this allows it to perform the mount unattended. (Presumably real file access won't be needed until a user with credentials logs in.) Being slightly more lenient allows lots of old clients to access krb5-only exports, with the only loss being a small amount of information leaked about the root directory of the export. This affects only v2 and v3; v4 still requires authentication for all access. Thanks to Peter Staubach testing against a Solaris client, which suggesting addition of v3 getattr, to the list, and to Trond for noting that doing so exposes no additional information. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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