[2413] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos domainname?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucien Van Elsen)
Wed Dec 2 14:49:07 1992
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 18:25:49 GMT
From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU
gp@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Gerald Pulver) writes:
> In article <1992Dec2.134834.23188@lth.se> jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg)
> writes:
> >Athena uses a domainname with upper-case characters, ATHENA.MIT.EDU.
> >
> >What is the main reason for this?
>
> I would imagine that this convention was adopted to distinguish between
> system/domain names and kerberos 'Realms'.
Be sure to use consistent capitalization, in whatever you choose- many of
the Athena systems (olc, zephyr, etc.) use an acl library which makes a
case-dependent comparison of realm names. Not doing this can lead to some
hard to track down problems.
-Lucien
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