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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