Project Review: kinit -C

[John Hascall]

Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu> answers:
> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 07:58 -0400, John Hascall wrote:
> > I'm wondering why this would be.  I'm thinking this isn't much more
> > than a config file and/or command line option a la '-i eth0' and
> > and an if-statement here or there.  In fact, even in the absence of
> > multiple KDCs I would think restricting which interface you would
> > talk to might be a good thing.

> Feel free to take a look at kdc/main.c and lib/apputils/net-server.c and
> decide where you'd put the if statement here or there. :)  I don't think
> it's impossible, but what we have right now is already kind of an
> octopus.

  Sound like a re-factor might be in order :)


> > Also, perhaps I haven't been paying close enough attention, but what is
> > the use case for adding the complexity of automatically dealing with
> > network reconfiguration.

> The real-world use case is mini-KDCs running on laptops or other
> DHCP-configured computers.  Obviously these are not traditional KDCs
> serving whole organizations, but see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1452
> for instance.

    Thanks.  That makes a lot more sense now.


John