[Freeipa-devel] MIT KRB5 uses 32bit time stamp

[David Kupka]

Hello!

Recently I have touched password expiration code in ipa_kdb_password.c 
and noticed that we have IPAPW_END_OF_TIME set to January 1st, 2038. I 
thought that it's just old code that still assumes 32bit time stamp and 
that Kerberos surely moved to 64bit long time ago.
I was really surprised when I opened /usr/include/krb5/krb5.h and found:
> typedef krb5_int32      krb5_timestamp;

Is there a reason why not just replace the line above with:
 > typedef krb5_int64      krb5_timestamp; ?

I know that it may seem that we have plenty of time to address it but I 
don't see a reason to wait.

-- 
David Kupka