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Re: Removing old keys

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Mon Sep 20 16:11:38 2010

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:11:30 -0400
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 15:31 -0400, Jonathan Reams wrote:

>> Is there a mechanism for pruning old keys in the same way that
>> kdb5_util lets you purge old master keys that are no longer being
>> used?

> To the best of my understanding, there is not, short of dumpfile
> editing.  This is a long-standing shortcoming in the kadmin system,
> which we simply haven't gotten around to correcting.

What would people prefer in terms of an interface for this capability?

* delete all old kvnos
* delete one specific kvno
* something else

We would probably implement this as a new kadmin RPC.
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