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Re: Heimdal krb5.conf sections

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Mon Jan 28 13:16:24 2008

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	28 Jan 2008 11\:57\:04 +0000 \(UTC\)")
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:15:26 -0800
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Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.no-spam-here.tomsk.su> writes:

> According to the man page, some options such as ticket_lifetime,
> renew_lifetime etc can be used both in the [appdefaults] and
> [libdefaults] sections. What is the difference between the usages?

At least with MIT, [libdefaults] affects the library default and will
affect any application that uses Kerberos.  [appdefaults] will only affect
applications that explicitly read krb5.conf and look for appdefaults
settings.  I would *assume* that Heimdal is the same.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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