From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 6 10:56:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E46E14FC2 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id KAA07127; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id KAA20904; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:56:12 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA18760; Tue, 6 Jul 99 10:56:09 PDT Message-Id: <37824338.4A65506E@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:56:08 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Ladavac Marino Cc: "'Dan Seguin'" , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Connect and so on.. References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796D2@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ladavac Marino wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Seguin [SMTP:dseg@texar.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:22 PM > > To: Ladavac Marino > > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers > > Subject: RE: Connect and so on.. > > > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: > > > > > [ML] If I understand this correctly, only the syscall which is > > > being authenticated must block during the authentication. This > > > makes the authentication atomic from the viewpoint of the syscall. > > > The other processes/kernel supported threads may proceed. Sounds like > > > RAGF(spelling?) scheme you're doing there. > > > > What you describe above is correctly expresses what I was trying to > > say. > > > > Could you point me to more about this (RAGF) scheme? > > [ML] I don't know if I have spelled it out correctly, but this > is the authentication scheme used on mainframes (IBM at least) where all > syscalls are routed through the authentication subsystem before > proceeding. However, the subsystem seems to reside in kernel, and is > (possibly precompiled) table driven so that it does not cause gross > inefficiency. > > You should ask a local mainframe guru about that. RACF. Remote Access Control Facility, IIRC. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message