[LU-16848] Remove legacy gss pipefs and lgssd code

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.16.0
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Aurelien Degremont
• Reporter: Aurelien Degremont

Description

The original GSS support in Lustre was implemented using a patched version of the equivalent NFS tool from nfs-utils, eventually being forked and copied into lustre source tree.

Since, 2 new tools were added that replaced it: lsvcgssd and a linux keyring support with lgss_keyring.

(my understanding so far).

 

What's sure is that lgssd is not more used for a while, code has been touched since 2008, and in the actual source tree, there is even not a way to build it.

As Kerberos support is improved recently, let's get rid of this old code which is making harder to maintain GSS code.