[2185] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: Implementation of appdefaults profile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Sat Aug 24 13:16:05 1996
To: epeisach@MIT.EDU
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Aug 1996 09:37:49 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 13:16:00 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>The one complaint I have with your patch is that it modifies the profile
>library and requires that applications know about the profile field of
>the context 0 which they don't normally do - if they only include
>krb5.h.
>
>Perhaps a better solution would be to call the functions
>krb5_appdefault_string, etc and take a krb5_context as an argument.
That makes sense; I did say that I wasn't sure this belongs in the
profile or not. Certainly it would be easy to change this to be
a krb5_* function. Another thing that would possibly make sense would
be to change the realm argument to be a krb5_data type, since that's the
way you normally deal with realms.
>Also - I would prefer if the #define of KRB5_DEFAULT_LIFE was still used
>- although changed to "10h 0m 0s"
Yeah, I realized later that keeping KRB5_DEFAULT_LIFE was probably a good
idea.
So, any chance this will make it in for beta 7? :-)
--Ken
