Using GSS-API in Linux kernel

pjm3@ic.ac.uk pjm3 at ic.ac.uk
Mon Mar 18 04:26:08 EST 2002


Quoting noam rinetzky <noamrinetzky at hotmail.com>:

> Hi
> 
> I'm writing a network application in which clients and servers run inside 
> Linux Kernel. It requires authentication and message integrity. I was 
> thinking of using Kerberos for authentication and getting the security 
> services by using gssapi. However It looks like the implementation of gssapi
> 
> seems to use "user-land" library and headers such as errno, malloc etc.
> 

Check out the Linux NFSv4 work at http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/

> I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to use gssapi inside the 
> kernel, and what is required in order to do so.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -noam
> 
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