[3939] in Kerberos
Re: KRB5 problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Ramus)
Tue Sep 27 19:47:42 1994
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 16:37:33 PDT
From: ramus@nersc.gov (Joe Ramus)
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In an earlier posting, I said we have no problem with using /tmp on
our Sun. It turns out that we had inserted a local fix in the
Kerberos 5 source to ignore the error when it tried to lock the
cache file.
So I agree, the MIT version 5 does fail when trying to lock a cache
file in /tmp when using tmpfs on SunOS.
>> >> Are you using tmpfs for your /tmp? It doesn't support file locking,
>> >> which means that the kerberos library loses horribly when it tries to
>> >> acquire a lock on the cache.
>>
>> I have SunOS 4.1.3 with /tmp configured like this in /etc/fstab:
>> swap /tmp tmp rw 0 0
>>
>> I can do kinit to get the initial TGT and then do some
>> operations that need to add to the cache. It now contains 3 items.
>> Of course, I did not do this on a busy machine or in a case where
>> another process might also want to lock the same file at the same time.
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