[28180] in Kerberos
Re: Client RPC timeout too short
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Aug 2 19:22:48 2007
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:22:16 -0400
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message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:25:31 -0400")
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>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU> writes:
Ken> On Jul 31, 2007, at 18:41, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> It seems kind of unfortunate that the getprincs RPC is designed
>> in such a way that you need this mod.
Ken> The approach Cygnus came up with (though I think it was more
Ken> about producing a responsive GUI than avoiding actual
Ken> timeouts -- but I didn't work on that piece myself) was to
Ken> extend the admin protocol so you could fetch a small number
Ken> of principals at a time, repeating to fetch the entire set.
Ken> Perhaps we should adopt some variant of this.
This is clearly superior except in implementation complexity.
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