KfW 3.1: kinit.exe, krb5.ini and ticket_lifetime

Jay Stamps jstamps at stanford.edu
Thu Feb 1 12:00:00 EST 2007


Hi Sam:

>     Jay> Is this a bug?
>
>It is a bug that  kinit.exe in KFW treats default_lifetime as minutes.
>
>I think it's also a bug that absent everything else NIM doesn't fall
>back to default_lifetime in krb5.conf.

In my experience, absent everything else the default is ten hours. I 
agree that for NIM, krb5.ini should at least stand betw the Windows 
registry and the ultimate fall-back position of 10 hrs.

Is this on anyone's to-fix list?

(Also glad to learn I'm not hallucinating.)

-J




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