Re: [OT] Re: GGF's extensions to GSS in Public Comment

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 01:19:08AM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> There is one cache associated with the LSA session.
> A process or thread can create a new cache which is not
> associated with the session.  However, it would be
> inappropriate to use an environment variable in this case. 
> 
> Within the context of a logon session a krb5_ccache name is unique.
> There is no guarantee that the krb5_ccache name will be unique across
> the entire system.   Using an environment variable would certainly
> fail in any situation in which you either had a single process (a 
> multi-threaded
> server) in which each thread must maintain its own cache reference
> or where the processes exist in different logon session spaces.  For example
> a user process communicating with a daemon process.

You have just proven one of my points.  Thank you.  Perhaps this was not
so off-topic after all :)

Nico
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