How does gsscred work?

[Nicolas.Williams@ubsw.com]

The gsscred command makes GSS/Kerberos names out of usernames.
That's all it does.

So what could there be for the KDC to do for gsscred? Principal
name validation? A principal name might be valid one moment,
and later not (e.g., a user might be fired/layed off or quit
soon after you create a gsscred db entry for her), so that's
not really useful (principal name "validation" is really done
during GSS context setup).

Cheers,

Nico
-- 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: carcassone_fr at yahoo.com [mailto:carcassone_fr at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 2:04 PM
> To: kerberos at mit.edu
> Subject: How does gsscred work?
> 
> 
> I have install a KDC on a Solaris machine which will act as the
> server.  My client machine is a HP-UX.  I got gss-server (Solaris) and
> gss-client (Solaris and HP-UX) working without any problems.
> 
> Then I ported gsscred on HP-UX.  The utility executed without any
> errors and generated gsscred_db for the Kerberos mechanism.  However,
> I don't see any output from KDC log file when gsscred is executed. 
> Shouldn't gsscred be talking to the KDC?
> 
> How about gssd?  Which services/principals are gsscred/gssd utilizing
> when going over to the KDC?
> ________________________________________________
> Kerberos mailing list           Kerberos at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
> 

Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com

This message contains confidential information and is intended only 
for the individual named.  If you are not the named addressee you 
should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.  Please 
notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this 
e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.

E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free 
as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, 
arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses.  The sender therefore 
does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents 
of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.  If 
verification is required please request a hard-copy version.  This 
message is provided for informational purposes and should not be 
construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or 
related financial instruments.