[448] in Kerberos
Re: Questions about names & instances
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Steiner)
Tue Jul 19 06:59:33 1988
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Jennifer Steiner <steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> > Is there a restricted set of legal characters in names and instances?
> > If not may I suggests something like upper/lower case letters, numbers,
> > underscore, > > and hyphen? Also is there a wild card instance, which
> > matches any (or all) instances?
> > Ted Anderson
>
> I would like to add "." to that list for instances only. It is
> needed in some cases. I.e., service name = "vice", instance =
> "wm.athena.mit.edu".
>
> - Mark Lillibridge
You can find the specifications for naming in the part of the Athena
Technical Plan on Kerberos, pp 6-7. "." is not legal unless escaped
with a backslash. Personally, I think this should be modified; it
would be useful to be able to include "." in instances, as Mark points
out. Wild card names and instances would also be useful. For example,
when extracting a list of tickets for servers on a given host, we
essentially need a wildcard name, and the host as instance.
Jennifer
