Use other default credential cache then FILE

tseegerkrb tseegerkrb at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 02:42:12 AEDT 2017


On 06.03.2017 08:41, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> On 03/03/2017 10:17 PM, tseegerkrb wrote:
>> /Hello, i m playing around with MIT kerberos at moment and got the
>> problem that openssh do not honor the "default_ccache_name" variable in
>> /etc/krb5.conf. It looks like the FILE based credential cache is
>> hardcoded and openssh set KRB5CCNAME to it, but i would like to use the
>> KEYRING cache. Is there any way to tell ssh to use the cache set in
>> "default_ccache_name"? /Many thanks in advance and best regards
>
> Hello,
> in Fedora and RHEL we have a patch that takes care of this:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/openssh.git/tree/openssh-6.3p1-krb5-use-default_ccache_name.patch 
>
>
> I am not sure why it was not driven upstream yet, but in any case if 
> that would solve your case, feel free to use it, if it would be 
> acceptable upstream, feel free to merge it.
>
> Regards,

Hello,

thx for your answer. I m using debian / ubuntu and would prefer to get 
the patch in the upstream package.
I m new to this, how and who do i need to ask to add the patch to the 
upstream?

thank you in advance

Best Regards,
Thorsten



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