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authorAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>2010-09-28 20:43:58 -0700
committerAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>2010-09-29 03:55:04 +0000
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s4-kerberos: use TZ=GMT when we are invoking krb5 code in helpers
Our helper scripts can fail on Fedora with the PDT timezone (Western USA). This is the same issue we found with Heimdal earlier today, the 24 second difference between GMT and UTC, but this time in MIT Kerberos as linked into bind9. By forcing TZ=GMT in these scripts we avoid the problem Pair-Programmed-With: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
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diff --git a/source4/scripting/bin/samba_dnsupdate b/source4/scripting/bin/samba_dnsupdate
index 5ed46c326c..a8a7e591c6 100755
--- a/source4/scripting/bin/samba_dnsupdate
+++ b/source4/scripting/bin/samba_dnsupdate
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ import tempfile
# and don't get swallowed by a timeout
os.putenv('PYTHONUNBUFFERED', '1')
+# forcing GMT avoids a problem in some timezones with kerberos. Both MIT
+# heimdal can get mutual authentication errors due to the 24 second difference
+# between UTC and GMT when using some zone files (eg. the PDT zone from
+# the US)
+os.putenv("TZ", "GMT")
+
# Find right directory when running from source tree
sys.path.insert(0, "bin/python")