Memory Leak problems with krb5_get_init_creds_password?
Jeffrey Altman
jaltman2 at nyc.rr.com
Wed Aug 17 08:07:40 EDT 2005
Chet Burgess wrote:
> It is important to note that even if you have the
> REALM and KDC(s) listed in the file properly the library will still
> try DNS first, so you MUST add "dns_fallback = false" to turn off the
> resolver calls.
I am fairly sure that DNS is not used in preference to the configuration
data in the krb5.conf file. However, the library probably calls the
resolver library init routine prior to making a request.
Are you suggesting that calling res_init() repeatedly from the same
thread results in a memory leak?
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