Default libkrb5 ccache location

[Stephen Gallagher]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 07/30/2013 08:07 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 03:27 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> Of course, you should skip this if the symlink already exists and
>> points to a valid directory...
> 
> This doesn't make any sense whatsoever, if we are back to
> unpredictable file names and trolling I may as well just use
> /tmp/krb5cc_XXXXXX only.
> 
> Ccaches do not belong in the home directory, period.
> 

To clarify this statement slightly: ccaches *cannot* be in the home
directory because this causes a chicken-and-egg problem with Secure
NFS home directories. We need the credentials to be accessible in
order to mount the home directory at all.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

iEYEARECAAYFAlH3scsACgkQeiVVYja6o6OPmQCePnOl2QO1hegJedaxm0J/LK/x
LqIAn3W1mtxBFUNFWtuaouUD23YMWrES
=L5EK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----