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Re: Problems with TGS referral ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Tue May 4 16:53:53 2010

To: "Richard E. Silverman" <res@qoxp.net>
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:53:40 -0400
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"Richard E. Silverman" <res@qoxp.net> writes:

> The MIT code also requires that the principal type in the request be
> NT-HST-SRV in order for it to automatically issue referrals; Windows,
> however, sets the type to NT-HST-SRV.  The logic is this (comments taken

I think you mean NT-SRV-INST.

> Given this, I had to patch the code to get it working, but it does work.
> Also, you have to code the host->realm mappings for hosts you want
> referrals on into krb5.conf; it doesn't seem to use the DNS for this
> (_kerberos TXT RR's).  You'd have to be careful with that anyway; it would
> be very easy to get referral loops, given that the Windows and Unix views
> of realm membership don't match up.

This should be fixed in krb5-1.8.1.  See RT ticket #6685:

    http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=6685
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