OpenJDK krb5 ignore /etc/krb5.conf?

Weijun Wang weijun.wang at oracle.com
Mon Jul 16 20:32:40 PDT 2012


Ping again.

On 07/05/2012 04:34 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:
> Hi Scott
>
> On Mac since Lion, sun.security.krb5.Config tries to locate the config
> info in this order:
>
> 1. java.security.krb5.conf system property
> 2. ${jre}/lib/security/krb5.conf
> 3. SCDynamicStoreConfig
>
> The main difference from other platforms is that it will not try config
> files, say, /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos or /etc/krb5.conf.
>
> On the other hand, even /usr/bin/kinit comes with Lion reads the config
> file (if there is no SCDynamicStoreConfig setting).
>
> Is there a special reason for the current Java behavior? I do notice
> that the Apple 6u33 already does this.
>
> Thanks
> Max




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