On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:34:15PM +0200, Harald Barth wrote:
> Btw, one of my ticket caches looks like this (probably MIT library):
>
> Issued Expires Principal
> Aug 5 18:06:47 2017 Aug 12 18:06:45 2017
> krbtgt/[email protected]
> Aug 5 18:06:50 2017 >>>Expired<<<
> imap/[email protected]
> Aug 6 18:35:34 2017 >>>Expired<<<
> imap/[email protected]
> Aug 8 09:08:14 2017 >>>Expired<<<
> imap/[email protected]
> Aug 9 09:12:16 2017 Aug 10 09:12:16 2017
> imap/[email protected]
>
> There is no reason that the expired service tickets are kept around,
> but in this case, the code seems to keep them and append new tickets
> at the end instead.
By design, the "FILE" credential cache type is *append-only*. Much
fancier read-write locking and recovery would be needed for a cache
where entries can be deleted and replaced.
--
Viktor.
