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Re: Stash File

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Sat Jul 2 14:13:02 2005

From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:56:18 -0700
Message-ID: <87psu15by5.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
To: kerberos@mit.edu
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"Manel Euro" <euro_32@hotmail.com> writes:

> Is there a need to backup the stash file. If I have understood write when
> creating a slave KDC and  running the command kdb5_util stash the stash
> file is created.
> Is this correct?

If you have the password that you used to create the stash file, you can
always recreate the stash file.  Since the slave KDCs all have a copy of
the stash file, one could also argue that the slave KDCs are backups of
the stash file (and the database).

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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