Handle FreeBSD-style user-specific certificates for NFS
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- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 50
- Forks
- 36
- Avg merge
- 3d 22h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 2
Description
FreeBSD's RPC-with-TLS implementation supports a security policy mechanism that enables an x.509-authenticated client to tell an NFS server to squash all requests within its TLS session to a single specific user ID. The user ID is specified within the subjectAltName field of the client's certificate. We'd like to add that support to ktls-utils and the Linux kernel's RPC client and server.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the RPC-with-TLS handling in ktls-utils and the Linux kernel RPC client and server areas. Trace how the client's certificate subjectAltName is processed and how security policies are applied. Done means supporting a specific user ID from the certificate and squashing requests within that TLS session on both client and server sides.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, linux
- Domain
- networking, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100