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Passing the Security Context of the Requesting Process
Security context and its length is added to the end of the RPC header.
- Easy, Fast, and at the RPC layer
Other ways it could have been done
- Use RPC Authentication flavor – limited to 400 bytes and auth_unix was hardcoded at one time.
- Add to each NFS procedure – not at RPC layer
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