kdc "status" - string or number

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Mon Feb 8 08:45:54 EST 2010


>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> writes:
    Greg> An alternative proposal would be to use KDC-internal error
    Greg> codes everywhere, and have a big function or table which maps
    Greg> them onto protocol errors.  That design would simplify the
    Greg> error-handling code within the KDC, at the expense of having a
    Greg> long-range correspondence between the set of error codes used
    Greg> in the KDC (and subsidiary libraries) and the protocol error
    Greg> code map.

I actually kind of like this proposal.

--Sam



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