[8083] in Kerberos
Re: Bug fix: kdc.conf not being read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sun Sep 22 03:57:34 1996
To: Christopher Seawood <cseawood@qualcomm.com>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Sep 1996 03:38:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: Christopher Seawood's message of Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:24:11 -0700 (PDT)
First, when sending patches as mime attachments, please do not
base64 encode them; it is annoying and unnecessary. If your mailer
cannot be configured to include attachments in 7bit encoding, then
please include the patch in the body of the message instead of in a
separate MIME part.
Second, I think you are confused about the location of
kdc.conf. The kdc.conf file must live in either the
$prefix/lib/krb5kdc or the file specified in the KRB5_KDC_PROFILE
environment variable. For various reasons mostly dealing with bad
design choices in certain database abstractions, you cannot allow
krb5.conf to specify the location of kdc.conf, as kdc.conf may specify
an alternate location for krb5.conf. If you find a documentation
reference that indicates this is not the case, we will certainly fix
either the code or the docs.
--Sam
