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Question about keytab timestamp field

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Fri Nov 20 16:14:45 1992

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:53:15 -0500
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU


The timestamp field in a V5 keytab entry appears to be the time it was
extracted from the database, rather than the time the key was last
changed (useful) or that the principal was created (slightly less
useful).  Can someone explain why this decision was made?

Barry Jaspan
Aktis, Inc.

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