Re: GGF's extensions to GSS in Public Comment

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:21:51PM -0500, Von Welch wrote:
> 
>  > Someone who thinks that environment variables are a good idea probably
>  > has very little programming experience on Microsoft Windows platforms.
> 
> For implementations that aren't integrated with the Kernel, I don't
> think its a question of environment variables being a good idea or
> not, it's a question of "what other choice do you have?"

Oh, you have a choice: per-user credential stores instead of per-session
credential stores.

> Ideally, I agree - it would be nice we didn't have to use environment
> variables and didn't have to mess with this. But since we do, it seems
> like the best idea is to expose it so that it can be handled
> reasonably.

You don't have to use environment variables.  Looks like you used them
only because MIT krb5 did (and does).

Nico
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