[cifs-utils PATCH 7/8] cifs.upcall: unset $KRB5CCNAME when creating new credcache from keytab

Jeff Layton jlayton at samba.org
Fri Feb 24 14:27:49 UTC 2017


We don't want to trust $KRB5CCNAME when creating or updating a new
credcache since we could be operating under the wrong credentials.
Always create new credcaches in the default location instead.

Reported-by: Chad William Seys <cwseys at physics.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
---
 cifs.upcall.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cifs.upcall.c b/cifs.upcall.c
index 15e1e0f91c22..0c89d7cf40d7 100644
--- a/cifs.upcall.c
+++ b/cifs.upcall.c
@@ -379,6 +379,12 @@ init_cc_from_keytab(const char *keytab_name, const char *user)
 
 	memset((char *) &my_creds, 0, sizeof(my_creds));
 
+	/*
+	 * Unset the environment variable, if any. If we're creating our own
+	 * credcache here, stick it in the default location.
+	 */
+	unsetenv(ENV_NAME);
+
 	if (keytab_name)
 		ret = krb5_kt_resolve(context, keytab_name, &keytab);
 	else
-- 
2.9.3




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