[15677] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: issue with krb5_prompter_posix() design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Thu Apr 15 18:05:38 2010
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:04:55 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 03:00:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yes. The library world thankfully looks a lot more like object-oriented C
> than it used to, but there's still work to do there. (The most relevant
> example I can think of in the Kerberos library space is the difficulty in
> specifying the Kerberos configuration, default ticket cache, and keytab
> file through various API boundaries, particularly GSS-API; there are APIs
> that mostly do the right thing for some of those, but they're not widely
> used. And memory ticket caches are exactly the sort of global state
> that's hard to deal with and breaks in various shared library combination
> scenarios.)
Yes.
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