Kerberos codes in Apple's Java

[Bino George]

Hi Max,

> 1. Looking for krb5.conf at /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos

I filed http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-566 which tracks this feature. This should be fairly straight forward to port it from JDK6. We fixed JDK6 in Lion to also read the Kerberos config from SCDynamicStore as /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos is not maintained in Lion.

> 2. Reading native memory-based credentials cache into Credentials objects

I don't think we do this in JDK6 either. 

Regards
Bino.



On Oct 14, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:

> Hi Mike
> 
> I'm working in the Java SE Security Team in Oracle. Apple's JRE (at least in the JDK 6 releases) supports some extra Kerberos features for OS X. As I know, at least there are:
> 
> 1. Looking for krb5.conf at /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos
> 2. Reading native memory-based credentials cache into Credentials objects
> 
> I didn't see them on the Project Status page [1]. Is it because they are too trivial to be listed or you're not going to support them?
> 
> Thanks
> Max
> 
> [1] http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port+Project+Status