[460] in Kerberos
valid names
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 28 13:07:49 1988
From: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
There has been a change from the old kerberos to the new about what
is considered a valid name:
---- old protocol
% kinit
MIT Project Athena, (dodo)
Kerberos login: 13.10
Principal unknown (kerberos)
% kinit -i
MIT Project Athena, (dodo)
Kerberos login: krbtgt
Kerberos instance: SMS_TEST.MIT.EDU
Password:
Password incorrect
%
--- new protocol
% kinit
MIT Project Athena, (soup)
Kerberos Initialization
Kerberos name: 13.10
kinit: bad Kerberos name format
Exit 1 kinit
%
% kinit -i
MIT Project Athena, (soup)
Kerberos Initialization
Kerberos name: krbtgt
Kerberos instance: ATHENA.MIT.EDU
kinit: bad Kerberos instance format
Exit 1 kinit -i
% kinit krbtgt.ATHENA.MIT.EDU
kinit: Bad Kerberos name format (kname_parse)
MIT Project Athena, (soup)
Kerberos Initialization
Kerberos name: ^C%
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Is this really appropriate? Some operating systems have usernames
with .'s and @'s in them. (In MPE, a Hewlett Packard operating
system, ALL usernames have .'s in them.)
