issue with preauth processing

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Mon Oct 26 16:03:01 EDT 2009


>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> writes:

    Nicolas> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:33:45PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
    Nicolas> Second, I think it's fair for an application to want to
    Nicolas> avoid the "no pre-auth" and "plain PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP"
    Nicolas> methods, even if the KDC might allow it, in which case
    Nicolas> you'd want the system to try all other pre-auth methods
    Nicolas> available.
    >> 
    >> I agree.  I don't think that is what the current interface was
    >> intended to be though.

    Nicolas> I know.  I'm not sure that changing this semantic now
    Nicolas> would break anything, but then, I also agree with this:

It would for example break someone using enc-ts for optimistic
pre-auth who upgrades to FAST and then sholud be using enc-challenge.



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