[3519] in Kerberos
The Case of the Realm Name in 5.4.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clifford Neuman)
Thu Jul 7 14:53:36 1994
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 11:38:41 -0700
From: Clifford Neuman <bcn@ISI.EDU>
To: DEEngert@anl.gov
Cc: KERBEROS@MIT.EDU, AUTH-PILOT@es.net
In-Reply-To: "Doug Engert"'s message of Thu, 07 Jul 94 09:31:17 CDT <9407071825.AA09668@MIT.EDU>
Kerberos realm names are case sensitive. For realm names that are
based on DNS names (which are themselves not case sensitive), the name
should be converted to upper case. Note that this is the opposite of
what happens for host names that appear as instances of principals of
type NT-SRV-HST, for which the host name in the instance is converted
to lower case if it is not otherwise case sensitive.
I will note these in the errata files for the V5 specification.
~ Cliff
