There's a so-called 'upcall' mechanism in the filesystem. rpc.gssd gets requests from the nfs client through that and sends the answers through the same mechanism. It's very patchwork IMHO.
/sbin/mount and mounts_nfs per se have no knowledge of this authentication backdoor. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Wendy Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > How does the NFS client (say, Linux and AIX) find a users krb5 tickets > in the filesystem? Does /sbin/mount forward the ticket to rpc.gssd? > > Wendy > ________________________________________________ > Kerberos mailing list [email protected] > https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos > ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
