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Kamil Krynicki commented on DIRKRB-717:
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As I'm not a collaborator of the repo, the best I can do is to submit a patch.
> Allow semicolon as a comment character in krb5.conf files
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> Key: DIRKRB-717
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRKRB-717
> Project: Directory Kerberos
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Kamil Krynicki
> Priority: Major
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> I've recently been trying to work with krb5.conf files using kerby and it
> kept on crashing when ";" was used as a comment character in the krb5.conf
> file.
>
> According to the MIT code:
> [https://github.com/krb5/krb5/blob/0744026f06e8cbf477aa49cfe16b5fd28a9ddc9e/src/util/profile/prof_parse.c#L86]
> it should be allowed.
>
> While Kerby does this:
> [https://github.com/apache/directory-kerby/blob/trunk/kerby-kerb/kerb-common/src/main/java/org/apache/kerby/kerberos/kerb/common/Krb5Parser.java#L195]
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> We should skip lines that start with ';'
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