On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:37:21PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:
> Of course, this has to have some cooperation from things that may want
> to update the credential cache with something like:
>
> open(/tmp/newfile)
> write(newfile, data)
> close(newfile)
> rename(/tmp/newfile, /tmp/oldfile)
...
seteuid(user's uid);
newfile=mktemp("/tmp/krb5cc_uid_XXXXXXXX");
krb5_cc_default(...);
krb5_cc_store_creds(...);
link("/tmp/krb5cc_uid", newfile);
...
> Perhaps that last part is the deal breaker on this scheme.
Not really, though with default ccache names there's the threat of
symlink races...
> Mike
I like this,
Nico
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