On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:24:17AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> On 2 December 2013 00:58, Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > So, the underlying issue is that we're trying to set an empty master
> > key - which doesn't really make sense anyway.
> I would argue it shouldn't crash, it should come up with a reasonable
> error. Not to mention, I think this use to work.
I agree kstash shouldn't crash on an empty password - I've filed an
upstream bug report about that. That's orthogonal though - even if
that would work, setting an empty master key password is suboptimal.

> > There are two solutions I can think of; either we can just skip calling
> > kstash at all here, or we can generate a random key.
> >
> > The latter seems like a better idea, since it means we won't be
> > setting an empty key by default (the priority for the
> > heimdal-kdc/password question is medium).
> Yes, that seems reasonable to me.
Okay, I'll upload a fix to unstable with that.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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