[Patch] enable preferred realms for ccache searching

Kevin Coffman kwc at citi.umich.edu
Wed Jul 2 13:18:46 EDT 2008


2008/7/2 Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman at ics.muni.cz>:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:53:12AM -0400, Kevin Coffman wrote:
>> I'm fixing some things up in this patch (see comments below) and I
>> have a question as well:  Is "score" ever anything besides zero or
>> one?  I can see how it might be used in the future for including more
>> preferences, but today it is only zero or one?
>
> The score is really only zero or one. It is there because we use one more
> preference - PBSPro tickets - these have the highest priority at all but
> I don't think PBS tickets are widely used so I removed this part from the
> public patch.

OK, I'll leave that part alone then.

> Depending how close is release of 1.1.3 utils but we may want
> allow to add dynamic settings of score to be read from a config file. On the
> other hand, this will be deprecated once the keyring stuff is ready.
>
> Do you want me to rework the patch according to your comments?

Thanks, but I'm already cleaning it up.  I'll re-post for you look at
before sending up to Steve.

> Also, if interested, I have a patch to set the default preferred realm
> from the kerberos configuration.

I think that would be a nice thing to add to this.


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