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Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #194] a stash file is not a keytab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn via RT)
Thu Jul 3 11:40:53 2008
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:11:26 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 1, 2008, at 18:19, Alexandra Ellwood via RT wrote:
> Keytabs aren't byte order independent? So if a sysadmin creates a
> keytab for me on a machine
> with a different endianness from mine do I have to do something to
> it for it to work?
There have been a couple versions of the keytab file format; v1 was in
native order, but v2 writes big-endian values. (Mostly 16-bit values,
though, I think, even for fields that are supposed to support 32-bit
values -- and only 8 bits for the key version number, which will
likely become a serious problem at some point.)
Ken
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