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From: martin@iastate.edu (Calsyn Martin Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Re: Database Frobbing (was Re: What are a principal's attributes used for?)
Summary: Kerberos Mass-Addition
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Date: 17 Dec 90 14:32:20 GMT
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We were faced with a need to add 300+ rcmd.hostname entries to the
database and so created a program capable of adding principals from a
file.  The principals are added with random keys, so to create user
principals would require a modification to generate useful passwords.

We use a heavily modified version of Moira and the registration server
and so, as at MIT, users obtain their principals at the time they
register.  Deleting principals is a particular nuisance.  Jon, is there
a particular reason why kdb_edit, or some such program, doesn't support
a delete operation.  The underlying database systems (dbm, ndbm) are
certainly capable of it. Am I breaking a design constraint if I add such
a function?

Martin R. Calsyn                                   martin@iastate.edu
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Iowa State University Computation Center           voice: (515) 294-9889 
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