kdb2_dbopen missing symbol . . . sorta

Daniel Henninger daniel at unity.ncsu.edu
Thu Jul 24 22:10:36 EDT 2003


>     Darren> But as they've said, it'll be fixed up in a different way
>     Darren> for 1.3 (yay!)
>     >>  Note that we consider these libraries internal and while we
>     >> acknowledge there are applications that use these libraries, we
>     >> would not consider it a bug if these applications were broken
>     >> by some change.
>
>     Daniel> I mainly use the libraries for a password change
>     Daniel> application (in this case, a perl module).  Is there a way
>     Daniel> that I don't know about that accomplishes this without
>     Daniel> having to include kdb5 and/or kadm5clnt?
>
> You can change a user's password if you know the user's password using
> krb5_change_password.  There is no way to write an administrative
> application without libkadm5.

*facepalm*  I can't believe I overlooked that function.  =)  Thanks much!
BTW.  Is there a definitive kerberos function/programming guide?  I've
never really found one.

Daniel

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