[1665] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Propsal: Add krb5_get_profile...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Thu Aug 29 13:57:01 1996
To: epeisach@MIT.EDU
Cc: krbcore@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Aug 1996 21:49:03 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:56:54 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
In message <9608190149.AA20191@kangaroo.mit.edu>, epeisach@MIT.EDU writes:
>> The developer wants to add stanza to the krb5.conf for his application
>> for site configurable operations. I see several options depending on the
>> route we want to take:
>>
>> Thoughts? Comments?
I think that krb5.conf should be the config file for the krb5
library/system. Application configuration information should go in an
application configuration file. The krb5.conf profile information
should remain internal to the library, or accessible only by specific
api calls like krb5_default_realm().
Exporting calls to allow applications to open their own config files
using the same syntax as ours wouldn't be a bad idea. This might as
well be in libkrb5, since libkrb5 has to have the code in it anyway.
We might not want to name these functions krb5_*(), since they don't
depend on krb5 at all. krb5 will depend on these functions, though.
Marc
