[37063] in Kerberos
Re: A client name with an '@'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Wed Jun 3 13:23:33 2015
From: Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <201506031520.t53FKvh1022921@hedwig.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> (Ken
Hornstein's message of "Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:21:04 -0400")
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:23:17 -0700
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Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
> Also, the venerably Russ Allbery created a lowercase realm for
> Stanford, and repeatedly has said that if he had to do it all over again
> he wouldn't have done a lowercase realm; too much software assumes an
> uppercase realm. Maybe that has changed in the intervening years.
It worked okay (still is, so far as I know), but all the documentation
everywhere was "wrong" and it definitely wasn't worth the confusion. We
never tried having realms that only differed in case, though. That really
would have broken all DNS-based service discovery, etc.
--
Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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