[krbdev.mit.edu #7232] Confusing error message for key version mismatch

Greg Hudson via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Wed Aug 8 13:09:38 EDT 2012


Looking back through the archives, this is actually a conscious change:

http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krbdev/2008-December/007154.html

Sam's reasoning was that wrong-key-version errors aren't very common, 
which I think is not necessarily true.

I think with a little bit of additional code, we can return a clearer 
error code in the non-alias case.

Sam also notes that gssrpc__svcauth_gssapi() uses KRB5KRB_AP_WRONG_PRINC 
to iterate over service principal names.  I think it's fine not to 
iterate in the cases where we'd produce a kvno mismatch error code.


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