cli_credentials ccache semantics and test changes
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Wed May 23 23:26:28 MDT 2012
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 01:02 -0400, simo wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 13:39 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>
> Something doesn't click here,
> are you saying that if I use samba libraries in a program and user/pas
> are specified within it, it will just merrily go and blow away my
> ccache ?
No, Samba always creates an in-memory ccache for it's own operations.
We are very careful not to touch a credentials cache unless we are
actually using it.
> That sounds quite wrong, especially if that happens with utilities like
> the net or samba-tool utilities. Can you elaborate on this ?
What it means is that if you use samba libraries in a program and
user/pass are specified within it, that these are used, irrespective of
if any kerberos credentials cache is in the environment.
Andrew Bartlett
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