kadm5.acl 1.2 to 1.3
Sam Hartman
hartmans at MIT.EDU
Wed Feb 16 14:20:48 EST 2005
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Colles <timc at inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:
Tim> Hit an interesting subtle difference with the use of *N in
Tim> the kadm5.acl file to refer to a previous wildcarded
Tim> component when moving from MIT Kerberos version 1.2.8 to
Tim> version 1.3.4. On the old version *1 for example would refer
Tim> to the first wildcarded component on the same line whereas in
Tim> the new version it appears to refer to the first wildcarded
Tim> component in the file! This as you can imagine caused an ACL
Tim> line to break mysteriously. It could be fixed by shifting
Tim> that ACL line to the first line in the file or by changing *1
Tim> to *2 (in our case) to step over an irrelevant wildcard from
Tim> an earlier line.
This was not an intended change.
Can you please open a bug by sending
a bug report to krb5-bugs at mit.edu?
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