[5190] in Kerberos
Re: V5: Can principal names have '@' in them?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Nessett)
Wed May 17 17:14:51 1995
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 13:54:15 -0700
From: Danny.Nessett@Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Nessett)
To: jik@cam.ov.com
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Jon,
>
> If it isn't, then "foobar@baz@GZA.COM" should parse into the principal
> "foobar@baz" in the realm "GZA.COM".
>
> Does the current working draft of what will replace RFC 1510 say anything
> about this? Does anybody have any thoughts about whether '@' should be
> an illegal character in principal name components?
>
There would have to be well formed parse rules to support this. Would you
allow an '@' in a realm name component as well (probably not). If not,
then are you proposing that the last "@" seen by the name parser delimit
the realm from the username?
Dan
