Ladavac Marino wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Seguin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:22 PM
> > To: Ladavac Marino
> > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers
> > Subject: RE: Connect and so on..
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote:
> >
> > > [ML] If I understand this correctly, only the syscall which is
> > > being authenticated must block during the authentication. This
> > > makes the authentication atomic from the viewpoint of the syscall.
> > > The other processes/kernel supported threads may proceed. Sounds like
> > > RAGF(spelling?) scheme you're doing there.
> >
> > What you describe above is correctly expresses what I was trying to
> > say.
> >
> > Could you point me to more about this (RAGF) scheme?
>
> [ML] I don't know if I have spelled it out correctly, but this
> is the authentication scheme used on mainframes (IBM at least) where all
> syscalls are routed through the authentication subsystem before
> proceeding. However, the subsystem seems to reside in kernel, and is
> (possibly precompiled) table driven so that it does not cause gross
> inefficiency.
>
> You should ask a local mainframe guru about that.
RACF. Remote Access Control Facility, IIRC.
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