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Re: A client name with an '@'

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick van Rein)
Wed Jun 3 02:49:10 2015

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Hi,


Nordgren, Bryce L -FS wrote:
>
> I could, but I'm not certain the MIT Kerberos KDC (to which kinit is 
> connecting) knows how to canonicalize.


It does not.  It will however handle usernames with an embedded @ as any
other, as you've already found.

> Boy if I could get user principal mapping going, that would be sweet.

Or you might retain the uppercase realm and try to cross-sign between
the uppercase and lowercase realms.  Your (somewhat silly) clients logon
to the lowercase realm and gain access to the (less errorprone) uppercase
realm.

Cheers,
-Rick

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