Creating GSSAPI initiate credential using keytab entry

Greg Hudson ghudson at MIT.EDU
Mon Mar 8 12:15:09 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:03 -0500, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The kinit function in:
> [...]
> will do what you want

There is really no need to use a file ccache and no need to use
environment variables.

> No, there isn't any way to do this in a thread-safe manner.

I don't believe that statement is true.  gss_krb5_ccache_name is not a
great interface since it uses thread-global state, but it is
thread-safe.





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