[17314] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Inserting opaque data into the DB
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alejandro Perez Mendez)
Tue Oct 18 13:17:18 2011
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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:17:08 +0200
From: Alejandro Perez Mendez <alex@um.es>
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> On 10/18/2011 08:21 AM, Alejandro Perez Mendez wrote:
>> I have been looking through the code to see a point where I can add
>> random data to a principal entry in the user database during creation or
>> modification.
> Do you really mean "random data" in the sense of PRNG-generated data here?
No, I expressed myself badly :). What I meant is to include opaque data.
Something that I could recover later from an preauth or authdata plugin.
>
>> The problem is that when I retrieve the principal (i.e. using getprinc),
>> this TL_DATA does not seem to be recovered. Does anyone have some hints
>> on this? Thanks in advance.
> I don't know why you'd be having this problem; I suspect you'll need to
> do some probing with a debugger. But I did want to note that MIT krb5
> 1.10 will have a string attributes feature with kadmin support:
>
> http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Projects/Principal_entry_string_mapping
I could try, but I just realized that the string attributes feature is
exactly what I was looking for, so the effort wouldn't be worthy.
When do you plan to release krb5 1.10?
Regards,
Alejandro
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