Re: documentation vs specification

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Greg Hudson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The MIT krb5 team is quite aware that Heimdal and Shishi share its
> credential cache file format.  The last time MIT krb5's format changed
> was in 1995(*), and we are unlikely to change it again without serious
> consideration for compatibility on the part of all implementations.
> Part of the reason we haven't formally documented it is that Simon did
> it for us in the Shishi documentation.  (It would certainly be better if
> it were specified as part of our own documentation, or in some kind of
> neutral implementation standard document; that's just a matter of
> resources and priorities.)
>
> (*) Support for "configuration values" was added a couple of years ago.
> This is technically layered on top of the file format, but does affect
> code which lists a ccache.  Heimdal implemented this first and MIT krb5
> followed its lead.

Would it be too much noise to mention that a) the referrals realm is a
bit of a change, b) I dunno if JGSS was ever fixed to support ccache
version 4.

Nico
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