[7u8] Request for approval for CR 7184815: [macosx] Need to read Kerberos config in files

[Edvard Wendelin]

Approved.

(link to changeset in case anyone else is interested: 
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/c4c69b4d9ace )

/Edvard

On 08/29/2012 05:36 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:
> Hi All
>
> This is a request to backport a jdk8 fix into jdk7u8.
>
> 7184815: [macosx] Need to read Kerberos config in files
>
>    http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7184815
>
> After this change, the Java kerberos has a chance to read the system 
> default /etc/krb5.conf file if no other config file is defined.
>
> The fix is already included in jdk8 as:
>
>    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/
>    Reviewed-by: valeriep
>
> The patch for jdk7u8 is identical to the one in jdk8.
>
> Thanks
> Weijun