[7710] in Kerberos
Re: krb5 beta6 database entries disappearing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Fri Aug 2 18:16:46 1996
To: shields@crosslink.net
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 02 Aug 1996 17:54:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: shields@crosslink.net's message of 2 Aug 1996 02:00:08 -0000
>>>>> "shields" == shields <shields@crosslink.net> writes:
shields> In article <tsld91byoww.fsf@tertius.mit.edu>, Sam Hartman
shields> <hartmans@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> It's actually the db code that is a lot buggy; I don't think
>> there are too many bugs in our support db. Basically, this
>> happens if you use db databases. Don't use db databases.
>>
>> The next release of Kerberos will include a newer version of db
>> which we have some confidence in.
shields> I thought gdbm had locking problems that made it
shields> unsuitable as well. What should be used, if you don't
shields> have a "real" dbm library (i.e., on Linux)? -- Shields,
shields> CrossLink.
Well, if you don't mind not running kadmind, gdbm works fine.`
Seriously, if I were running a kdc on Linux, I would take the
gdbm code, comment out the locking calls (krb5 will do its own
locking) and use it.
--Sam
