[16660] in Athena Bugs
linux : ksu/kdestroy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emil Sit)
Sat Jan 30 15:17:38 1999
To: sipb-athena-bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:17:36 EST
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
System name: snorklewacker
Type and version: i686
Display type: XFree86 3.3.2.3 Mach64
What were you trying to do?
kdestroy the root tickets that ksu gets for me.
What's wrong:
kdestroy destroys both the krb5 ticket cache
(i.e. whatever is in KRB5CCNAME) and the krb4 ticket
file (i.e. whatever is in KRBTKFILE) by default. Since
ksu doesn't bother to change KRBTKFILE (say, by getting
krb4 root tickets too), if I just type "kdestroy", I
will nuke my krb5 root tickets and whatever krb4
tickets I was using before. This is annoying.
I can of course type "kdestroy -c $KRB5CCNAME", but
that just seems like a pain.
Incidentally, the kdestroy manpage doesn't give any
indication that it normally destroys both krb5
and krb4 tickets. It doesn't talk about krb4 at all.
Hm. Of course, it looks like ksu now deletes the
root ticket cache when you exit the shell, according
to its manpage. I don't think it used to do that.
What should have happened:
ksu should do some sort of 524init and set KRBTKFILE so
that kdestroy will DTRT.
On the other hand, it might also additionally be useful
if kdestroy had an easy way of saying "just destroy
my krb5 ticket cache" and "just destroy my krb4 tickets".
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
kdestroy(1), ksu(1).
