krb5_cc_gen_new

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Tue Jan 4 15:39:12 EST 2005


>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at columbia.edu> writes:

    Jeffrey> Its primarily for debugging or for user display purposes.
    Jeffrey> It is better for the name of the cache to have some
    Jeffrey> meaning the simply be an entirely random string.

    Jeffrey> Can anyone please explain what harm is going to occur by
    Jeffrey> providing an optional hint?

Your application or UI does use it for display purposes; my
application doesn't supply it; my application ends up confusing the
user.

--Sam



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