Status of Kerberos Support across Samba versions

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> Remember, most modern Unix kernels (*BSD, Solaris) (Linux?) already
> store POSIX creds in a fairly opaque cred_t struct type and provide
> utility functions for comparing uid_t and gid_t values to a given cred_t
> value.

> So it should be possible to re-shape the cred kernel struct to be
> extensible, e.g., to support multipe credential types, without having to
> re-write any or much existing FS driver code.

cred_t doesn't show up anywhere under /usr/include/ on any of my Linux
systems, and I've never heard of a syscall like that.  If it exists at
all, it won't show up until Linux 2.4, so perhaps this is the first
thing for people to push on the linux-kernel list if they're interested
in seeing support for SIDs...

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer