From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 16 09:35:23 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA19834 for current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA19829 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:35:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0vZg5A-0003wyC; Mon, 16 Dec 96 08:40 PST Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id QAA12151; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:44:20 +0100 (MET) To: Bill Paul cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plan for integrating Secure RPC -- comments wanted In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:39:59 EST." <199612161440.JAA07129@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:44:19 +0100 Message-ID: <12149.850751059@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.