[22371] in Kerberos
Re: 1.3.4: kadmin tries to open log file R/W (II)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Fri Sep 3 15:23:13 2004
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:20:56 -0400
In-Reply-To: <tslbrgn41fl.fsf@cz.mit.edu> (Sam Hartman's message of "Fri, 03
Sep 2004 15:06:38 -0400")
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cc: Mike Friedman <mikef@ack.berkeley.edu>
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>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU> writes:
Tom> The kadmin client code itself is identical; only the library
Tom> with which it is linked is different. Unfortunately, the
Tom> kadmin client code cannot easily distinguish between running
Tom> in local mode on a KDC host and running as a networked
Tom> client, so it too attempts to open the logfile.
Sam> OK, why was Mike seing different behavior with 1.2.8?
The call to krb5_klog_init() isn't in 1.2.8. It was added in 1.3.x
because sometimes the server-side kadm5 library attempts to log
things, and having the logging be uninitialized would cause coredumps.
---Tom
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