On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 09:13, Luke Howard wrote:
> 
> >Yes. This is a problem.  In the past I have favored a 'krb5 keytab
> >write' option that would write our password out into the standard
> >keytab, but there were good reasons not to.  The problem is, I can't
> >remember what they were.  Mostly 'if somebody changed our password under
> >us' stuff.  
> 
> Hmm, why would this be a problem? (I mean, I can understand it would be 
> a problem if it happened while SAMBA was running, but keytabs tend to be
> fairly static...)

Yes - I think the benefit (getting real kerberos authentication working
on unix in ADS) outweighs the 'risk' here.

Now, all somebody needs to do is write up the patch or dig one up that's
already done...

Andrew Bartlett

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