API for setting preauth get_init_creds_options

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at secure-endpoints.com
Tue Nov 21 11:05:16 EST 2006


Kevin Coffman wrote:

> krb5_error_code KRB5_CALLCONV
> krb5_get_init_creds_opt_set_pa(krb5_context context,
>                                krb5_get_init_creds_opt *opt,
>                                krb5_preauthtype preauth_type,
>                                krb5_principal principal,
>                                const char *user_id,
>                                const char *password,
>                                krb5_prompter_fct prompter,
>                                void *prompter_data,
>                                const char *attr,
>                                const char *value)
> 
> Should "attr" and "value" be an array of attr/value pairs so we could
> accomplish setting several values like "x509_anchors", "pool",
> "pki_revoke" in one call?
> 
> How should these be passed from the command line for kinit?
> 
> BTW, for the plugins to make use of the krb5_get_init_creds_opt, they
> would have to know about the new extended structure, which I think is
> undesirable.

You probably want a krb5_get_init_creds_opt_get_pa() function that
allows a plugin to search for a particular attribute value without
needing to know anything about the internal structure.

Jeffrey Altman
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