another public api question
Sam Hartman
hartmans at MIT.EDU
Tue Apr 16 14:13:46 EDT 2002
>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at columbia.edu> writes:
Jeffrey> I know that this one is going to start a long thread:
Jeffrey> krb5_get_profile()
Jeffrey> This function has been exported for a while. There has
Jeffrey> been much argument over the years as to whether or not
Jeffrey> applications should be using the profile_XXXX() functions
Jeffrey> or not. However, removing this function does not stop
Jeffrey> applications from linking to and using the profile
Jeffrey> library directly. All it does is prevent the application
Jeffrey> from conveniently finding out which profile is being used
Jeffrey> by Kerberos 5.
I think we've actually gotten a fairly consistent internal position on
that. We've decided that the interface you proposed, and committed is
a reasonable compromise and that the app_defaults stuff is fine, but
the raw profile interface is not something we want to expose.
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