Automatic Prompting for Tickets on Windows

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Fri Dec 5 09:39:44 EST 2003


>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Hartman <hartmans at MIT.EDU> writes:

>>>>> "Alexandra" == Alexandra Ellwood <lxs at MIT.EDU> writes:
    Alexandra> The context default ccache is per krb5_context, KClient
    Alexandra> session. When an application creates a new krb5_context
    Alexandra> or KClient session, the context default ccache will be
    Alexandra> set to the current value of the system default ccache.
    Alexandra> Once set, the context default ccache is never re-synced
    Alexandra> with the system default ccache unless the application
    Alexandra> manually sets it to that value.  This behavior is
    Alexandra> critical for KClient because v4 has no concept of an
    Alexandra> auth context.


    Sam> I've never been convinced that the context default cache is a
    Sam> good idea for krb5 or should exist at all.

Drop the last clause; I understand why it needs to exist for krb4 and
kclient.
But again, still off topic for this discussion.


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