On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:40:16 GMT, Weijun Wang <wei...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this enhancement and its 
>> [CSR](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8279632). Two new options `-s 
>> salt` and `-f` can be specified on the `ktab` command when adding entries.
>> 
>> I'm a little concerned about the compatibility risk described in the CSR, 
>> i.e. the `-f` option is already used in `ktab -d` to force removing entries. 
>> Hopefully not many people are writing their own wrappers on ktab that always 
>> include the `-f` option. I do want to be consistent with the naming in the 
>> MIT krb5 ktutil command.
>> 
>> Another thing worth mentioning is the 
>> [KerberosKey:&lt;new&gt;(KerberosPrincipal principal, char[] password, 
>> String 
>> algorithm)](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/3790e58090be25421e3e323eb29deea100b7608c/src/java.security.jgss/share/classes/javax/security/auth/kerberos/KerberosKey.java#L149)
>>  constructor which always uses the default salt. For consistency, it looks 
>> like a new constructor should be added that takes the salt string as a 
>> parameter as well. However, I don't intend to add it as I cannot see a 
>> proper usage for it. In fact, I now regret adding the constructor linked 
>> above.
>
> Weijun Wang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   duplicate words, and another year

Looks good. Thanks~

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Marked as reviewed by valeriep (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6991

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