On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:52:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On 2 December 2013 12:31, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > > It's never been clear to me why you would ever care to have a known master > > key password, as opposed to just using kstash --random-key. The only > > reason I can think of would be to recover the Kerberos KDC database when > > you have a copy of the database but not the master key, but I'm not sure > > why you would be in that state. It's just as easy to back up the master > > key file along with the database. > > > > Yes, agreed. It seemed a good idea at the time... > > Maybe --random-key wasn't available when I initially wrote that stuff. Or > maybe I just didn't know about it.
I can't think of a good reason either; I figured that since the question was there, there would probably be a reason for it. Perhaps it's time to downgrade the priority of the password question to "low" ? Cheers, Jelmer
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