Calling init_sec_context() without config file and default realm

Greg Hudson ghudson at mit.edu
Sat Dec 25 17:07:45 EST 2021


On 12/24/21 12:27 PM, Isaac Boukris wrote:
> I'm wondering if this is something we can fix in the library to allow
> working without config-file, or how to get around it, perhaps using a
> different gss name-type for the target would help, need to check, but
> anyway I think it is worth raising.

If this code path is the only problem, I think we can smooth it out.
krb5_cc_select() didn't initially use krb5_get_fallback_host_realm()
(before commit 234b64bd6139d5b75dadd5abbd5bef5a162e298a), so we should
be able to continue without the realm after a KRB5_CONFIG_NODEFREALM error.


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