Fedora ticket cache location

Nico Williams nico at cryptonector.com
Mon Jun 11 15:50:44 EDT 2012


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> wrote:
> Having a symlink to uid is interesting, although keep in mind that the
> mapping from username to uid is not a bijection: multiple users with
> different names can have the same uid. Obviously that's a special case,
> but I'me certainly seen it done from time to time.

With symlinks we can easily take care of username aliasing.

I like the idea that we can use geteuid() alone to find the ccaches
and keytabs, rather than having to call getpwuid() (which could be
slow).

Nico
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