Lustre Kerberos

= Resources =

Documentation

 * 1.8 Manual entry
 * lustre.org wiki Flavors and setup
 * Kerberos status 2013-09

Mailing List

 * iudev list we share the iudev mailing list currently (low traffic)

Related Topics

 * Contract_SFS-DEV-002 Shared Key and UID Mapping project using Lustre's GSS

Jira

 * Security search filter

= Background = (someone please fix this up) Lustre Kerberos implements the Kerberos-5 security protocol to protect the privacy, integrity, and authenticity of Lustre-protocol messages. Basically the way this works is that the *sptlrpc* layer wraps each Lustre RPC inside an sptlrpc envelope, protecting all the data (including the header and other metadata) of the original message.

=How to Get Started Using Kerberos= Kerberos setup requires the following components/packages to be installed before Lustre can be compiled with Kerberos support. ... How to set up those packages How to compile Kerberized Lustre How to enable/use Kerberized Lustre

=Kerberos FAQ= =Comments on the Code= architectural plan, codemap, how to add flavors, ... =Errata= These are things to watch out for, don't work, etc.