Using GSS-API in Linux kernel

[Nicolas Williams]

Look at the Linux NFSv4 project. If it's anything like the Sun
implementation then there will be a kernel-level interface to GSS-API.

In fact, looking at the Linux NFSv4 web pages the Linux implementation
does seem to be based on the Sun design of having kernel stubs for some
GSS-API functions which are actually implemented in user-level by a
daemon called "gssd".

http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/

Cheers,

Nico

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:11:08AM +0000, noam rinetzky wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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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