[31985] in Kerberos
Re: kadmin in different time zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jan 26 11:03:21 2010
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Chris <lists@deksai.com>
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:02:35 -0500
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On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 10:13 -0500, Chris wrote:
> I have a hadnful of machines that sit in different time zones. Whenever I need
> to do work on them with kadmin (everything is MIT 1.7), it fails unless I
> temporarily switch the timezone to match the kdc. Once I'm done, I can put the
> time zone back, and kerberized applications work normally. Is this normal
> behavior for kadmin?
No, that's not expected behavior as far as I know; the only time that
should matter is the absolute Unix time (number of seconds since
midnight Jan 1 1970 GMT, fudged for leap seconds).
You might try comparing "date +%s" values on different machines (may
require gnu coreutils).
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