Concurrent access to replay cache

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Apr 15 09:35:03 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Kouril <kouril at ics.muni.cz> writes:

    Daniel> Hi, is the replay cache mechanism supposed to work with
    Daniel> multiple processes accessing the same rc_* file at the
    Daniel> same time? 

Yes.

    Daniel> I've run into problems working on the kerberos
    Daniel> module for apache (modauthkerb.sf.net), which verifies the
    Daniel> user's password against KDC. 

However it doesn't actually work.  This is a known problem.

For Kerberos 1.3.x I'd recommend creating some sort of application
level lock if possible around calls to gss_accept_sec_context and
krb5_verify_init_creds.




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