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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:57:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Kerberos tickets in /tmp -- or somewhere else?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.991019094445.33499A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Does anyone know if there's a way to make our default-installed K4 move
it's tickets somewhere other than /tmp without rebuilding?  /tmp on my
busy machines gets filled with ticket files (sometimes many for a
particular user with different variations on the same name).  On CMU's
Andrew workstations, they make use of a /tkt with restrictive access
rights for ticket files, which can be cleaned seperately from /tmp, and
more importantly, in a different namespace.

It sounds like the kind of thing that's hardcoded (and if I remember from
my last source inspection, it is), but perhaps we could make it something
configurable?  I guess there is no tradition of a /etc/kerberosIV/krb.rc
(.conf already taken)  with a configuration namespace and names/values
:-).  This could also be used to configure other host-based
policy--maximum ticket lifespans that the library should acquire, defaults
for ticket-passing behavior once we get K5, etc. 

Installing a customer Kerberos on my machines to get a prettier /tmp
sounds unfortunate, and definitely increases the time-to-make-useful on
machine installs.

Thanks,

  Robert N M Watson 

robert@fledge.watson.org              http://www.watson.org/~robert/
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