[OpenAFS-devel] Stop installing kseal

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:16:14 -0700


Unless there are any objections, I'm going to modify the OpenAFS Makefiles
to stop building or installing kseal by default.  It's a low-level
debugging tool that doesn't seem useful except in very unusual
circumstances.

For those who aren't familiar, kseal takes a username and the pre-salted
password for the AFS service key on the command line, creates a token for
that user using the key and without contacting a Kerberos server, and
stores it in the user's token cache. To use it in practice you have to not
only know the AFS service key password but also the salt algorithm used to
generate it unless you're using v4 salt.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>