(Final?) krb5.Conf Lexer/Parser Proposal

Henry B. Hotz hotz at jpl.nasa.gov
Fri Jan 6 21:36:50 EST 2006


On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:16 PM, krbdev-request at mit.edu wrote:

> The only reason I can see why my argument would be flawed is if there
> is some tag in a section configuration that could make the section
> valid for one user and invalid for another.  If such a tag existed it
> might be necessary for a small number of users to override a valid
> section.  Note that this tag would have to be a multi-valued tag
> (like "kdc") because single-value tags can already be overridden
> without using the final signifier.
>
> Can anyone think of such a tag?  Would we even want to create such a
> tag?  It seems to me that even the existence of a tag like that would
> be a bad idea since it would create an easy way for sysadmins to
> cause problems for their sites.

Due to firewall issues the list of kdc's may be different in  
different places.

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