This patch is being used at Los Alamos to allow better use of addressless tickets on large clusters. The writer of this patch is Harry McGavern. Patch's cleanly against Red Hat's patched version of krb5-1.2.6 and krb5-1.2.7. --- ./src/lib/krb5/krb/fwd_tgt.c.LANL_addresslesstickets Mon Dec 3 14:40:52 2001 +++ ./src/lib/krb5/krb/fwd_tgt.c Tue Oct 1 12:02:13 2002 @@ -103,9 +103,11 @@ krb5_free_cred_contents (context, &in); } - retval = krb5_os_hostaddr(context, rhost, &addrs); - if (retval) + if (tgt.addresses && *tgt.addresses) { + retval = krb5_os_hostaddr(context, rhost, &addrs); + if (retval) goto errout; + } if ((retval = krb5_copy_principal(context, client, &creds.client))) goto errout; krb5-1.2.6-LANL_addresslesstickets lines 1-16/16 (END) -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@lanl.gov Los Alamos National Labrador CCN-2 B-Schedule PH: Ta-03 SM-261 MailStop P208 DP 17U Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- So shines a good deed in a weary world. = Willy Wonka --