On Sep 27, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

>
>
> On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 08:52:52 AM -0700 "Henry B. Hotz"  
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Heimdal uses a standard keytab file for the master password.  In
>> Heimdal kadmin you can do:
>>
>> add -r M/K
>> del_enc M/K <all encryption types except the one you want>
mod --kvno==<desired next version #> M/K  ;-)
>> ext_key -k <master key stash location> M/K
>> delete M/K
>
> You can, but if you do that multiple times, you'll end up with  
> multiple keys with the same kvno.  Since Heimdal records for each  
> record the version of the master key that was used to encrypt it  
> (if any), it can handle multiple keys and do a gradual transition.   
> But that won't work if you keep reusing the same version.
>
> Also, that's rather convoluted compared to
>
> ktutil add -r -p M/K

So it is.  You can't delete it from the master DB afterwards with  
ktutil, but I guess you're advocating just leaving it there so you  
don't have to track the version number yourself?

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