Functional test of KDC for monitoring?

[Nico Williams]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Roland C. Dowdeswell <elric at imrryr.org> wrote:
> And [to the MIT developers], I think that it would be nice if there
> were either (1) functionality within Kerberos which allowed for
> the writing of programs such as this without overriding functions,
> i.e. allow library users to tell the libs to use a particular KDC;
> or (2) if k5ping or a similar program were integrated into MIT
> Kerberos to aid in monitoring as this is a need that all enterprise
> deployments of Kerberos need.

I second this.  k5ping is much too useful and conceptually simple to
be so difficult to implement.

Nico
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