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I am accessing an NFSv4 mount via Kerberos and then I do a kdestroy, but I am still able to access the NFS data. Why?

April 26, 2017able Data Kerberos Mount NFS nfsv4

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I am accessing an NFSv4 mount via Kerberos and then I do a kdestroy, but I am still able to access the NFS data. Why?

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The kernel code caches the gssapi context that was negotiated using the Kerberos credentials. Destroying the credentials does not destroy the context in the kernel. We plan to change this behavior when moving to use the new key ring kernel support to store credentials and contexts.