Windows has a major flaw when it comes to the use of getenv/putenv. getenv/putenv do not modify the actual environment of the process. Instead, they modify a copy of the environment block at the time the C Runtime Library was initialized for the current module. In other words, the C Runtime Library environment block for the executable is not the same as the C Runtime Library environment block for the krb5_32.dll library, etc. This results in problems when a process wants to set the default ccache name outside the krb5_context. The krb5_context default ccname disappears when the context is destroyed. gss_acquire_cred() suffers from the creation and destruction of krb5_contexts and therefore the krb5_context default ccname cannot be used to set a default ccname. Instead, the process environment must be used. In order to modify the process environment, SetEnvironmentVariable() must be used. However, this does not result in the C Runtime Library environment blocks being updated. putenv() does not see the definition of "KRB5CCNAME". This patch modifies get_os_ccname() for Windows to check GetEnvironmentVariable() before checking the registry. This hack will work as long as there is no "KRB5CCNAME" variable in the C Runtime Library environment block. The long term solution is to replace all calls to getenv and putenv with GetEnvironmentVariable/SetEnvironmentVariable for Windows. Commit By: jaltman Revision: 19154 Changed Files: U trunk/src/lib/krb5/os/ccdefname.c