Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] kadmin dissector

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:10:56 -0700
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:35:22PM -0400, Schene_Tony@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Here is a simple dissector for Kerberos kadmin requests.  It doesn't have to
> do much, because kadmin is an RPC protocol and the request is always encoded
> using RPCSEC_GSS with privacy.

Presumably you meant "it can't do much" - it's not that it doesn't have
it, it's that we don't decrypt RPCSEC_GSS-with-privacy traffic (to do so
would presumably require that the necessary keys be supplied to
Ethereal).

> This dissector works well with Solaris
> kadmin requests, but not so well with MIT's kadmin, since it uses a
> different RPC authentication flavor that Ethereal does not recognize.

What authentication flavor is that?