longer ticket life vs auto renew

Nico Williams nico at cryptonector.com
Tue Aug 14 11:47:42 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Mark Pröhl <mark at mproehl.net> wrote:
> if a ticket has been issued to the client, the KDC cannot revoke that
> ticket, even if the client is deleted or disabled. But if the client
> needs to do a renew request from time to time, the KDC might not issue
> new tickets if the client is deleted or disabled.

A few remarks regarding revocation:

 - For same realm client and service the TGS should check that the
client principal is still valid.

 - For x-realm tickets the most reasonable thing to do may be  to
shorten ticket life.

Nico
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