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Re: Relation between krb5_creds and krb5_context
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philipp Gesang)
Wed Jul 17 02:25:26 2019
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:25:01 +0200
From: Philipp Gesang <philipp.gesang@intra2net.com>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Hi Greg,
-<| Quoting Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, on Tuesday, 2019-07-16 12:26:48 =
PM |>-
> On 7/16/19 10:23 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> > what is the significance of the krb5_context that
> > krb5_free_creds() takes as its first argument?
>=20
> In the beginning there was a design principle that every libkrb5 API
> would take a context parameter (though there are a few exceptions). The
> context parameter for krb5_free functions is unused and is likely to
> remain unused.
thanks for providing the background.
> I have considered making a pass through the API and
> documenting that the context parameter is optional for a bunch of
> functions, including krb5_free functions.
That would be very much appreciated. For now I=E2=80=99ll have to do some
digging in the code to find out which of the APIs we use actually
require a context.
Best regards,
Philipp
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