[1974] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Configuration directories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Fri Nov 15 17:27:22 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 17:26:41 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of 13 Nov 1996 14:45:45 -0500,
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From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:45:45 -0500
I have one problem with this. I believe (and have flamed about in
person with people who didn't run away :-) that the krb5.conf file
should contain configuration information for the library, which might
include global application defaults. I think it would be terrible for
every application vendor to add a stanza for their own application.
Absolutely. New applications can use a new profile file, instead of
cluttering krb5.conf with extra junk.
In addition to the good reasons which Marc raised, the other important
reason why is efficiency --- each time a Kerberos application is
started, krb5.conf has to get parsed. If krb5.conf gets too big, you
slow down the startup of every single Kerberos application.
- Ted
