[2421] in Kerberos
Re: krb_get_phost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Thu Dec 3 12:53:33 1992
To: pato@APOLLO.HP.COM (Joe Pato)
Cc: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>, kerberos@MIT.EDU, dce-tech@osf.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 03 Dec 92 10:05:57 -0500.
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 92 12:26:15 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
>> If we are about to establish a naming convention for vanilla V5 host
>> names, I would appreciate considering adopting the convention that
>> already exists in the DCE. Also note that Marc's proposal will simply
>> not work in a DCE environment since "hosts/<machine_name>" is already
>> a directory and can't be a principal node until DCE 1.1.
Well, my proposal used host/<machine_name>, not hosts/...., so it
would work, but it would also be gratuitously incompatible. IMHO, any
unneccesary divergence between MIT and DCE krb5 conventions is a bad
thing. So, I'll code up krb5_princ_name_from_host() to emulate the
DCE and send the patches into the krb5 bugs list.
Marc
