On Jun 21 13:35, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > Since Cygwin Heimdal is built as Linux without any platform specific > credential cache support it will be restricted to using FILE: caches as > a ticket store. Microsoft Kerberos never uses FILE: based caches and > native MIT and Heimdal distributions use them only when explicitly > configured to. > > The preferred location of a krb5.conf file on Windows is > > %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Kerberos\krb5.conf > > By reading the DOS formatted file stored at that location any configuration > applied to native Kerberos library distributions will also be used by > Cygwin applications.
Sorry if I'm dense but what does that mean exactly for Cygwin? Assuming the Cygwin heimdal package would use that file location, would it be only able to interact correctly with other third part kerberos or heimdal packages, or would it also work with the native stuff and AD? > If Cygwin's /etc/krb5.conf is used the system administrator (often an > end user without knowledge that Kerberos is even being used) must ensure > that the two configuration files are synchronized to avoid inconsistent > application behavior. > > I guess that cygwin1.dll could special case /etc/krb5.conf and have it > shadow %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Kerberos\krb5.conf with appropriate end-of-line > translations. Not in the cygwin DLL. THis would have to be done in the heimdal package. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
