[krbdev.mit.edu #3035] Feature Request 2c for 1.5 (or whatever)

Ken Raeburn via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Mon May 2 13:01:22 EDT 2005


On May 2, 2005, at 12:34, "Henry B. Hotz" via RT wrote:
> Ability to create a new cache storage context that won't leak
> permissions to its parent process(es).  Getting admin rights in one
> window shouldn't imply those rights for every other window on my screen
> if I don't want it to.

You're basically describing something akin to AFS PAGs.
We're not going to reinvent PAGs, but for systems with similar 
capabilities, we can explore using them.  I believe someone is already 
looking at using the new Linux kernel key-ring stuff for Kerberos 
credentials.

Ken




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