On Oct 14, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Bino George <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Max, > >> 1. Looking for krb5.conf at /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos > > I filed http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-566 which tracks this > feature. This should be fairly straight forward to port it from JDK6. We > fixed JDK6 in Lion to also read the Kerberos config from SCDynamicStore as > /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos is not maintained in Lion.
Good. > >> 2. Reading native memory-based credentials cache into Credentials objects > > I don't think we do this in JDK6 either. Oh, I thought OS X's kinit does not generate a /tmp/krb5cc_name file. Isn't the ccache memory-based? Or, it's stored at somewhere else? Thanks Max > > Regards > Bino. > > > > On Oct 14, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Weijun Wang wrote: > >> Hi Mike >> >> I'm working in the Java SE Security Team in Oracle. Apple's JRE (at least in >> the JDK 6 releases) supports some extra Kerberos features for OS X. As I >> know, at least there are: >> >> 1. Looking for krb5.conf at /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos >> 2. Reading native memory-based credentials cache into Credentials objects >> >> I didn't see them on the Project Status page [1]. Is it because they are too >> trivial to be listed or you're not going to support them? >> >> Thanks >> Max >> >> [1] http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port+Project+Status >
