Creating GSSAPI initiate credential using keytab entry

Richard Evans richard.evans at datanomic.com
Mon Mar 8 15:55:54 EST 2010


Thanks for the tips - I'm trying them out right now.

One stumbling block is that I just can't find any documentation on

krb5_get_init_creds_keytab()

is there a good place with man pages?

Richard

-------- Original Message --------
>
> 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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