What is this 1 pag per second thing... I have heard it numerous times in the past but never saw any concrete info about it.
------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-6679 UMR Information Technology Fax: (573) 341-4216 > -----Original Message----- > From: David Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:35 AM > To: Neulinger, Nathan > Cc: Garrett Wollman; Jeffrey Hutzelman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel > Authentication Tokens (PAGs) > > > We also currently use the "Join a previously defined PAG" > functionality. We > make use of it only because of the "1 PAG per second" rule (we need > authentications more frequently than once per second for web > applications, for > example). I would delight to switch to an interface that > would simply let me > create a new authentication context without a time constraint > (and then > authenticate it from a file-based credential). > > Dave > > "Neulinger, Nathan" wrote: > >> OpenAFS does not care about the inverse operation of (a): given an > >> authentication context, find all of the subject processes > which belong > >> thereto. OpenAFS does not permit any variations on (b). > > > >Actually, that's not entirely true. With superuser privs you can > >definately > >join another pag, it just isn't code-friendly. You just have to know > >what the current integer values for the PAG are and set them in your > >group list. > > > >However, since I'm one of the few people making use of that, > and since > >it's to manually implement something that OpenAFS should now > do natively > >on linux, I'm not sure it's a problem to drop it. > > > >-- Nathan > > > >_______________________________________________ > >OpenAFS-devel mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel > > > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
