RFR 8029994: Support "include" and "includedir" in krb5.conf
Weijun Wang
weijun.wang at oracle.com
Thu Apr 10 11:40:00 UTC 2014
Hi All
Please review the code changes at
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8029994/webrev.01/
Two major changes made:
1. The include and includedir directives are supported now. Read
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-current/doc/admin/conf_files/krb5_conf.html
for a description. The part we support in this RFE is:
-----START-----
The krb5.conf file can include other files using either of the following
directives at the beginning of a line:
include FILENAME
includedir DIRNAME
FILENAME or DIRNAME should be an absolute path. The named file or
directory must exist and be readable. Including a directory includes all
files within the directory whose names consist solely of alphanumeric
characters, dashes, or underscores. Included profile files are
syntactically independent of their parents, so each included file must
begin with a section header.
-----END-----
2. When the same key appears more than once in krb5.conf, Java used to
choose the last value, while MIT krb5 chooses the first one. While it's
debatable whether latecomers should be able to override earlier
definitions or not, it's more important to have consistent behavior
across implementations. Therefore we adopt the MIT krb5 way. The
compatibility risk should be very low since it's very unlikely people
assigns values to duplicate keys in a single krb5.conf file, which is
what we support before this enhancement.
One code change that might look strange is in the Config constructor:
} catch (IOException ioe) {
- // I/O error, mostly like krb5.conf missing.
- // No problem. We'll use DNS or system property etc.
+ throw new KrbException(ioe);
}
Before this, the only possible IOException thrown is
FileNotFoundException when krb5.conf is not found, but now there can be
much more. So I move the FNFE check inside the loadConfigFile() method as
+ Path path = Paths.get(fileName);
+ if (!Files.exists(path)) {
+ // This is OK. There are other ways to get
+ // Kerberos 5 settings
+ return null;
+ } else {
+ return readConfigFileLines(
+ fullp, raw, dupsCheck);
+ }
Thanks
Max
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