Automatic Prompting for Tickets on Windows

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Wed Dec 3 15:33:24 EST 2003


>>>>> "Alexandra" == Alexandra Ellwood <lxs at MIT.EDU> writes:

    Alexandra> The context default ccache is per krb5_context, KClient
    Alexandra> session. When an application creates a new krb5_context
    Alexandra> or KClient session, the context default ccache will be
    Alexandra> set to the current value of the system default ccache.
    Alexandra> Once set, the context default ccache is never re-synced
    Alexandra> with the system default ccache unless the application
    Alexandra> manually sets it to that value.  This behavior is
    Alexandra> critical for KClient because v4 has no concept of an
    Alexandra> auth context.


I've never been convinced that the context default cache is a good
idea for krb5 or should exist at all.  

I'd prefer to avoid introducing new dependencies on it so we can
re-evaluate for 1.4.  I don't think that the proposed GSSAPI changes
will do this.



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