[krbdev.mit.edu #1202] KDC rejects unknown flags

Ken Raeburn via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Thu Dec 12 20:35:02 EST 2002


[hartmans - Thu Dec 12 17:22:45 2002]:

> Love points out that our KDC also rejects the disabled transited check
> option which it does understand.

Yes, that's part of the protection against exploitation of the old
chk_trans.c bug.  We shouldn't make the KDC obey this flag
unconditionally without warning admins that they'll need to upgrade
servers that are too old.  (Not obeying but not rejecting would probably
be okay.)



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