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- From: pato@APOLLO.HP.COM (Joe Pato)
- Subject: Re: Question about keytab timestamp field
- Message-ID: <9211202333.AA20558@Athena.MIT.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:40:05 GMT
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- The timestamp field in a V5 keytab entry appears to be the time it was
- extracted from the database, rather than the time the key was last
- changed (useful) or that the principal was created (slightly less
- useful). Can someone explain why this decision was made?
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- Barry Jaspan
- Aktis, Inc.
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- The timestamp field in the V5 keytab entry is the time the entry was
- added to the keytable. The DCE added this feature for a number of reasons - the
- most direct was to know which key is the newest in the keytable. Since
- key version numbers wrap at 255, the version number is not enough. In our
- environment the time the key was written to the key table is effectively the
- same time it is set in the KDC (we abstract access to the kerberos environment
- and the facility that manages keys for servers operates on both databases -
- making a direct change to the keytable and then a remote change to the KDC.)
-
- -- Joe Pato
- Distributed Computing Program / East
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- pato@apollo.hp.com
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