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CNS: keeping tickets for multiple realms?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Paul Morrison)
Sat Feb 3 22:29:39 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 3 Feb 1996 16:07:53 -0800
From: jmorriso@ConcordPacific.Com (John Paul Morrison)


One thing that's annoying is that kinit/krlogin overwrites the
/tmp/tkt<userid> file if you login to multiple realms. Why
doesnt it save /tmp/tkt.realm.<userid> instead? 

example of problem:

foobar% kinit 
Kerberos initialization on foobar
Kerberos name: user
Password: ****

foobar% rlogin server.realm1
foobar% rlogin server2.realm1
# so far so good


foobar% rlogin -k realm2 server.realm2
# craps out because tickets are wrong

foobar% kinit -r
Kerberos initialization on foobar
Kerberos name: user
Kerberos realm: realm2
Password: ****

foobar% rlogin server.realm2 
# works OK

foobar% rlogin server.realm1

# craps out again because now realm2's tickets are in /tmp/tkt<user>

grrrr!


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