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Key table functions

The key table functions deal with storing and retrieving service keys for use by unattended services which participate in authentication exchanges.

Keytab routines should all be atomic. Before a routine returns it must make sure that all non-sharable resources it acquires are released and in a consistent state. For example, an implementation is not allowed to leave a file open for writing or to have a lock on a file.

Note that all keytab implementations must support multiple concurrent sequential scans. Another detail to note is that the order of values returned from get_next is unspecified and may be sorted to the implementor's convenience.



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Autobuild 2006-06-16