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Re: Heimdal krb5.conf sections

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Sudakov)
Wed Jan 30 22:45:22 2008

From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.no-spam-here.tomsk.su>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:21:10 +0000 (UTC)
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Russ Allbery wrote:

> > 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.

Which is preferable for setting kinit options?

In fact, I have tried setting "forwardable = yes" in both the sections,
however after "kinit -R" the ticket ceases to be forwardable. I have
to say ""kinit -Rf" explicitly all the time. What gives?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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