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Re: Why can you not rename a random key with the new admin server?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sat Jul 27 22:10:06 1996

To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: epeisach@MIT.EDU, krbcore@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Jul 1996 22:09:43 -0400
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of Sat, 27 Jul 1996 21:35:48 EDT

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU> writes:

    >>> Am I confused, but shouldn't you be able to rename a random

    Marc> well, you could rename the principal's realm, too.  We could
    Marc> use krb5_kdb_salttype_v4 for random keys, since that has no
    Marc> salt, it's always safe.

	I like this idea, but suggest that we rename the salt type to
no_salt or add some sort of alias that implies the salt type is not
just used by an old version of Kerberos.

--Sam

    Marc> 		Marc

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