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Re: Ticket cache file
I don't think anyone has ever done locking on the ccache. It's not
typically a heavily updated resource. (Doesn't mean there couldn't be
a problem though.)
On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Harald Barth wrote:
>
> When using telnet/rsh/ssh/whatever, the krb library appends a service
> ticket to the FILE: ticket cache. Does the library serialize that with
> appropriate file locking or is that the responsibility of the calling
> program or user?
>
> Otherwise I suspect that this
>
> for n in `seq 1 500` ; do
> rsh host$n date & >/dev/null
> done
>
> could lead to ticket cache corruption. The suspects are running
> Heimdal 0.7.2 on FC3 emt64 (if it does matter).
>
> Harald.
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