What is 'flavor'?

[Tom Yu]

>>>>> "mikef" == Mike Friedman <mikef at ack.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

mikef> Actually I misspoke a bit.  What I have is my own code, based on code
mikef> in kadmin, that does a password change.  (FWIW, although the client
mikef> now has 1.3.4 installed, this code was, I believe, compiled with an
mikef> older release of MIT K5, possibly as far back as 2001).

That might explain it.  It is only krb5-1.4 and later which have
support for RPCSEC_GSS, so you will be using the older AUTH_GSSAPI
authentication flavor for your custom client.

---Tom