Re: problem with RPCSEC_GSS specification

Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com> Wed, 07 May 1997 03:36 UTC

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To: Mike Eisler <Michael.Eisler@eng.sun.com>
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Subject: Re: problem with RPCSEC_GSS specification
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From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 22:14:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: Michael.Eisler@Eng.Sun.COM's message of Tue, 6 May 1997 18:26:48 -0700
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Michael.Eisler@Eng.Sun.COM (Mike Eisler) writes:

>> 
>> > Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 17:52:15 -0700
>> > From: mre@jurassic (Mike Eisler)
>> > To: oncrpc-wg@sunroof
>> > Subject: problem with RPCSEC_GSS specification
>> > 
>> > ONC RPC'ers:
>> > 
>> > While debugging a problem, I noticed that RFC2078, the GSS-API
>> > specification, does not define the numerical values for GSS-API major
>> > status codes. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). The RPCSEC_GSS
>> 			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> That took less than a half hour. :-) Roland Schemers points out that
>> the C-bindings GSS-API spec (RFC1509 and
>> draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-cbind-04.txt) have defined values. So instead, I
>> propose just referencing draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-cbind-04.txt. 

The right answer is to define them in rfc2078.  Although these values
never appear on the wire, rfc2078 defines numeric values for other
arguments already.

		Marc