Bug 620424

Summary:	When using GSSAPI the username option for the c++ client is ignored
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise MRG	Reporter:	Gordon Sim <gsim>
Component:	Release_Notes	Assignee:	Lana Brindley <lbrindle>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	beta	CC:	mhideo
Target Milestone:	1.3
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	Cause: Specifying connection level username on c++ client when authenticating with the GSSAPI mechanism. Consequence: Any connection level username is ignored and the username for which a ticket was obtained via kinit will be used. The connection is still authenticated however so there is no loss of security. No workaround is possible, but as a valid ticket is required anyway, this in practice has little impact.	Story Points:	---
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Description Gordon Sim 2010-08-02 13:44:00 UTC

When using GSSAPI for authentication with the c++ messaging client, the username specified to the connection (e.g. via ConnectionSettings) is ignored and the value used when a ticket was obtained via kinit is used. The connection is still authenticated however so there is no loss of security.

The reason for this is that when the username *is* speficied there are very occasional failures (see bug 617267).

Comment 1 Gordon Sim 2010-09-17 07:31:23 UTC

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Cause: Specifying connection level username on c++ client when authenticating with the GSSAPI mechanism.

Consequence: Any connection level username is ignored and the username for which a ticket was obtained via kinit will be used. The connection is still authenticated however so there is no loss of security. 

No workaround is possible, but as a valid ticket is required anyway, this in practice has little impact.

Comment 2 Lana Brindley 2010-09-23 03:58:54 UTC

Revision 0.1 of the release notes will available for review on the stage shortly.

LKB

Comment 3 Lana Brindley 2010-10-14 20:42:32 UTC

Release Notes have now  been published:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_MRG/1.3/html/MRG_Release_Notes/index.html

LKB