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Re: Impact of "MS AD Kerberos token size" change

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas E. Engert)
Fri May 14 14:51:46 2010

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saggar wrote:
> On Apr 29, 4:43 pm, JC Ferguson <j...@f5.com> wrote:
>> I have found the change not necessary in the MIT library.  I've seen tokens as large as 24k from MS AD domain controllers.
>>
>> -jc
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: krbdev-boun...@mit.edu <krbdev-boun...@mit.edu>
>> To: kerbe...@mit.edu <kerbe...@mit.edu>; krb...@mit.edu <krb...@mit.edu>
>> Sent: Thu Apr 29 07:30:52 2010
>> Subject: Impact of "MS AD Kerberos token size" change
>>
>> Is MIT kerberos implementation dependent on Microsoft AD Kerberos Token Size
>> ?  If a user changes the default size from 12K to 64K . does it needs a
>> change in kerberos also ?
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Sunil Saggar
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> 
> I would like to understand how this token is used and how MIT library
> is not dependent on it. Will appreciate code_pointers/documentation.
> 

Google for:  Microsoft kerberos PAC

The PAC has UUIDs and GUIDs for the user, and is used in a domain for
authorization. A normal kerberos ticket might be less the 500 bytes.
The other 23.5k of the ticket is the PAC.

> -S
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