Control: reassign -1 libkrb5-3 Control: affects -1 kstart Kai Wohlfahrt <[email protected]> writes:
> Package: kstart > Version: 4.2-1 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > Dear Maintainer, > The k5start program repeats attempts to contact the KDC server if it is > unavailable. However, it continues to fail if a new network is > available. > Steps to reproduce: > - Disable network interface > - Run k5start (e.g. k5start -f /etc/krb5.keytab -K 10 -u host/jason -k > test.tkt) > - Enable network interface > I expect to see the error below repeated until the network comes back > up, and then it should stop: > k5start: error getting credentials: Cannot contact any KDC for realm > 'MY.REALM.NAME' > Instead, I continue to get errors until I stop the k5start > process. Starting it again after the network is available shows no > errors and gets the ticket correctly. k5start just calls krb5_get_init_creds_*, so if something is being inappropriately cached, this would be a bug in the underlying Kerberos library (rather than in kstart). Reassigning accordingly. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
