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krb5-kdc/194: a stash file is not a keytab

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@MIT.EDU)
Thu Nov 14 21:58:46 1996

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>Number:         194
>Category:       krb5-kdc
>Synopsis:       a stash file is not a keytab
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    krb5-unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   unknown
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 14 21:58:01 EST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mark W. Eichin
>Organization:
cygnus
	
>Release:        1.0
>Environment:
	
System: SunOS dcl 5.4 Generic_101945-37 sun4m sparc


>Description:
	
A stash file is not a keytab.  It probably should be; the keytab code is
maintained, and machine-independent, and using the keytab code for the stash
file would mean probably eliminating a lot of spurious code to select
the master key name etc.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
attempt to move a keytab from a master kdc to a slave.  if they architectures
are different byte orders, you will lose.

>Fix:
	
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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