Re: pam_krb5 and user logout

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas Williams ubsw com>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:52:31PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> It's not clear to me why Solaris needs the credentials to be in
> /tmp/krb5cc_uid.  Does the Kerberos implementation used by Solaris not 
> look to $KRB5CCNAME for the name of its ccache?  If that's the case, 
> then certainly the scheme can be modified to accomodate special needs; 
> the important thing is that credentials files are cleaned up when 
> they're no longer used, rather than leaving them lying around on the 
> filesystem.

Solaris has a daemon, called 'gssd' which takes care of doing
gss_init_sec_context()/gss_accept_sec_context() for the kernel-level
Secure NFS code.

This daemon doesn't know what any one process' environment looks like.
It probably doesn't even get to know the PID of the process on behalf of
which it's doing a gss_init_sec_context() - it might only know the uid...


> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer


Cheers,

Nico
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