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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 18:21:19 -0400
From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #3747] bug with registry?
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NetIDMgr allows you to obtain credentials for multiple identities.
You do not have to destroy yours to obtain your co-workers.
You can switch between them by specifying the "default" identity.
This is different from "kinit" which only understands the concept
of a single identity.

Jeffrey Altman


""Brian C. DeRocher" via RT" wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> KFW 3.0 with NetIDMgr, yes.
> 
> I did not explicitly select him as the default identity.  After double 
> clicking on his credentials, i see how i can select his identity as 
> default.  And this is reflected in the registry.
> 
> I assumed that if i destory joe's credentials and get my own, that the 
> default identity would become me.  After all this is the behavior with 
> kinit on linux.
> 
> I also though Access or the PostgreSQL ODBC driver would be smarter.
> If the username in the Data Source is brian, it would select the
> brian identity, likewise if it's joe.  But after some consideration
> a kerberos princ would need to be mapped to the database username
> somehow.
> 
> Anyway, i guess it's not a bug, just a hiccup.
> 
> Brian
>