Removing old keys

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Sep 20 16:18:15 EDT 2010


Tom Yu <tlyu at MIT.EDU> writes:

> What would people prefer in terms of an interface for this capability?

> * delete all old kvnos
> * delete one specific kvno
> * something else

> We would probably implement this as a new kadmin RPC.

The same semantics offered for keytabs by Heimdal ktutil look right to me,
namely all of:

* Remove a specified kvno.
* Purge all old kvnos.
* Purge all old kvnos which are at least as old as an <age> argument.

The last two could of course use a single RPC.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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