[1609] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Propsal: Add krb5_get_profile...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Mon Aug 19 11:36:08 1996
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:36:03 -0400
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
To: epeisach@MIT.EDU
Cc: krbcore@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9608190149.AA20191@kangaroo.mit.edu> (epeisach@MIT.EDU)
If we are thinking of changing the methods of accessing the profile
anyway, I'd like to mention that the "alternate profile" concept (ie:
kdc.conf) is pretty poorly implemented. Right now,
lib/kadm5/alt_prof.c (derived directly from lib/kadm/alt_prof.c) looks
like it re-implements a good chunk of the profile abstraction simply
because there is no good way to refer to multiple profiles with the
same context. Thus, the alt_prof code creates a new context to refer
to the new profile and has a duplicate set of functions to access the
new profile.
Now that I think about it, it isn't clear why it doesn't just create a
new context to refer to the new profile and use the normal profile
functions to access it. Maybe the code is brain-dead, not the
abstraction.
Anyway, it would be nice if this got cleaned up.
Barry
