Change in K4 ticket cache format

Alejandro R. Sedeno asedeno at MIT.EDU
Mon Mar 27 19:38:43 EST 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 19:09 -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> Excellent.  This is on a big-endian system, right?

Yup, that's why I had to build on sparc. The patch also has your fix for
little-endian systems which I'm currently running on my own 64-bit
system. 

> My answer to that problem was to provide a 'kfixtickets' program which just 
> reads in all the credentials in the ticket file and then writes them back 
> out again, optionally to a different file.  When linked against a patched 
> library, this allows users to manually fix up ticket files containing 
> tickets written by an unpatched library.  Take a look at
> 
>  /afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/aaa/src/aaa-head/bin/kfixtickets.c
> 
> (we build that against KTH krb4, but it's not like the API's differ)
> 
> -- Jeff

If there's interest in this and it needs any changes to work, I'd be
glad to look into it.

-Alejandro




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