Storing TGT in cache

[Jeffrey Altman]

You can always use JNI to wrap the necessary function calls from the
C based MIT Kerberos library.

Or you can extract the credential cache file format from the MIT
source code and re-implement it in Java.



Richard Gundersen wrote:

> Hi
> 
> In case my previous question didn't sound clear, I've done some digging 
> and found that Wedgetail have an Java API for Kerberos. The JavaDoc 
> describes a class called FileCredentialStore which has a method 
> put(Credential) which can be used to store a ticket in a file cache.
> 
> This is exactly the functionality I want. Ideally I'd like to find out 
> how to do this myself (legally!). If I were to write such a mechanism 
> myself are there specific rules I need to follow in terms of how I 
> persist the ticket in the cache so that it complies with Kerberos? Or 
> would it be valid to come up with some proprietary method of 
> persistence? E.g. if I am using Suns Krb5LoginModule to read from the 
> cache, the format I save it in, encryption used etc, must be well defined.
> 
> Any suggestions very gratefully received!
> 
> Regards
> 
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