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Re: config option inconsistencies

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Kevin Coffman wrote:

> I was just talking about new options being added for pkinit.  I'm
> pretty sure it would be too painful (for the installed base) at this
> point to change these.

Not neccessarily. If you modify the config file parser to automatically
replace '-' with '_' or just to strip both from key names, then Heimdal
could accept all forms. Whether that would really improve compatibility
or would just increase user confusion is another question.

Gabor

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