On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 22:55, Luke Howard wrote:
> 
> >I agree that if Samba is changing the password for a particular kerberos
> >principal, then it should store the hashes in the keytab.  
> >
> >The idea of *finally* getting kerberos useful on real sites is just too
> >appealing :-) 
> >
> >Naturally, the original plaintext password should stay basically where
> >it is.
> 
> In that case, perhaps it *is* better just to provide a get/set command line
> tool for the secret store rather than trying to hook the keytab into SAMBA
> per se.

Well, I think we should provide both, but if Samba just changed the
password for a principal, I see no harm in setting the password into the
keytab, when selected by the admin.

Andrew Bartlett

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