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Re: [kitten] GSS-API and timeouts

Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com> Wed, 04 April 2012 22:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] GSS-API and timeouts
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On 05/04/2012, at 8:18 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> 
>> Yeah, it is not optimal.  We could make it take a 'gss_ctx_id_t'
>> parameter so the timeout is just for a particular context, but then
>> there is no way to specify a timeout for the initial call that generate
>> the gss_ctx_id_t.
> 
> The lack of ability to set options on the initial call has been a problem
> for a long time.  In a Kerberos context, it currently means that one has
> to set a per-thread global for the ticket cache to use, for example,
> rather than attaching some state to a specific GSS-API interaction.


The non-standard extension gss_set_sec_context_option() can create a context handle which can be then passed to the first gss_init_sec_context().

-- Luke

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