Re: Will you review my patch to make jcifs-krb5-1.3.17 work on JDK 7, please?

return ticket.getSessionKey(); is in searchSessionKey() method at line 68.
And the patch file is attached.

2014-01-28 Kiju Kim <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed KerbAuthExample in jcifs-krb5-1.3.17 doesn't work on JDK 7.
> It works fine on JDK 6 but produces "jcifs.smb.SmbAuthException:
> Access is denied." on JDK 7.
>
> I've learned that it is due to the change how JDK generates subKey
> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031973).
>
> I prepared the following patch for Kerb5Context.java and saw
> KerbAuthExample worked fine on JDK 7.
> But I'm newt to jcifs and want my patch reviewed.
>
> <                 return ticket.getSessionKey();
> ---
>>                 com.sun.security.jgss.ExtendedGSSContext ec =
>>                         (com.sun.security.jgss.ExtendedGSSContext) gssContext;
>
>>                 return (Key) ec.inquireSecContext(
>>                         com.sun.security.jgss.InquireType.KRB5_GET_SESSION_KEY
> );
>>                 //return ticket.getSessionKey();
>
> Note that ExtendedGSSContext and InquireType are classes newly added in JDK 7.
> Also note that there is a small difference between the Key object
> returned by ticket.getSessionKey() and
> ec.inquireSecContext(KRB5_GET_SESSION_KEY) that their getAlgorithm()
> outputs are different. The former returns "DES" etc, but the later
> returns "1" etc. Looks like it doesn't affect the behavior of
> KerberosAuthExample but I'm not sure if getAlgorithm() is used
> elsewhere.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Kiju