Kerberos for Mac caches password expiration info?

Matt Crawford crawdad at fnal.gov
Sat Mar 27 11:25:58 EST 2004


On Mar 26, 2004, at 8:55 PM, Alexandra Ellwood wrote:

> Is it possible that the user's Macintosh is talking to a slave KDC 
> which has not yet updated to reflect the password change?  I tried 
> this against a Heimdal 0.6 KDC with the 10.3.3 kpasswd/kinit and was 
> unable to reproduce the behavior you describe.

Slaves are updated every 20 minutes.  This behavior continued for over 
two days.  And the new password always worked.



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