Discussion of krb5_get_init_creds_password() behavior wasRe:problem with the kinit_prompter in kfw 2.5

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at columbia.edu
Thu Feb 19 16:24:29 EST 2004


>>>>Ugly as it is, I think the only way to make this really work
>>>>properly is for krb5_get_init_creds() to return an indication
>>>>as to whether or not the reply it is returning came from the
>>>>master kdc and if so, skip the 2nd call (with use_master = 1).
>>>>
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>This seems reasonable to me.
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krb5_get_init_creds() is a private function.
Perhaps we can modify the "master" parameter to be

   int * master

and use it as an in/out parameter.

Thoughts?




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