Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:44:19 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plan for integrating Secure RPC -- comments wanted Message-ID: <12149.850751059@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:39:59 EST." <199612161440.JAA07129@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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In message <199612161440.JAA07129@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, Bill Paul writes: >Do we really want to make people recompile the kernel to get DES support? Not really. The trouble is that we cannot load a LKM until we have a RW fs :-( I could live with it if /sbin/init did contain a static DES copy, that is still a lot less mess than we have now. Poul-Henning >> For the issue of authenticated local transport: >> >> Instead of an LKM, put the code in the kernel. It shouldn't be too >> hard to make it a getsockopt() instead of a LKM. > >I'll check into this. I don't really consider myself an advanced >enough kernel hacker for this, but maybe I'll get lucky. Hey, you're talking about makeing LKM's all the time :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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