On Jul 14, 2009, at 2:34 AM, sqweek <[email protected]> wrote:
2009/7/13 Latchesar Ionkov <[email protected]>:
Adding the support we had before the access= support is probably
easy,
but I would like to make it better and support authentication for
multiple users. Still no idea what is the correct way. :( Any
suggestions are welcome.
Can't help you there - I'm not sure it makes sense to try and put
factotum's functionality in the linux kernel...
Probably don't need factotum in kernel, Linux has a keyring facility
that can be used to query userspace agents (like factotum). We'd just
need the right hooks in v9fs and potentially a glue application to
match the kernel keyring API.
Is there some problem
with the private namespace/individual user mount approach?
Main annoyance is the lack of a proper srv device in Linux to
facilitate sharing already open connections. This is t a problem for
per-user mounts --- but is a problem for private namespaces. You can
use p9p srv as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but then you incur
some additional overhead.
-Eric
