The RENEW operation and RPC authentication

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From: Carl Burnett (cburnett@us.ibm.com)
Date: 10/09/02-04:18:24 PM Z 

Subject: The RENEW operation and RPC authentication
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From: Carl Burnett <cburnett@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:18:24 -0500

I have a question about the RENEW operation and the RPC authentication 
that should be used with it. My guess is that RENEW should use the same 
RPC auth flavor and credential that it used to successfully establish the 
associated clientid. If this is true, then the RENEW operation needs to 
check this and potentially return an error (perhaps NFS4ERR_WRONGSEC). 
Currently, the RENEW operation does not list NFS4ERR_WRONGSEC as a 
possible error and it does not discuss RPC security requirements for the 
operation.

Is my guess correct?

Should the spec be updated to provide the needed detail here. If this is 
in the spec, and I missed it, I apologize. If so, can someone point me to 
the right spot.

On the subject of NFS4ERR_WRONGSEC, I noticed that the SECINFO operation 
discusses it as a potential error return in the implementation details, 
but its not included in the list of potential error returns.

Thanks,
Carl

Carl Burnett
AIX Kernel Architecture - Distributed File Systems
(512) 838-8498, TL 678-8498
(please reply to cburnett@us.ibm.com)

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