[1473] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Kerberos V5 realm name case sensitivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John J. Marco)
Wed Jun 14 18:38:34 1995
From: "John J. Marco" <johnma@sco.COM>
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: johnma@sco.COM, dceivers@sco.COM
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:59:41 -0700 (PDT)
Kerberos folks,
I built the Windows Kerberos client (CNS.EXE) from the beta 5
distribution and got it to run. One thing I noticed though,
is that it only lets me specify the realm name in uppercase.
Does this imply that realm names _must_ be uppercase? Are
realm names supposed to be non-case-sensitive?
The reason I ask is that the beta 5 code allows realm names
which are case sensitive. Moreover, the string-to-key
function does not normalize the case of the realm name.
This means that for practical purposes, the realm "kerberos.sco.com"
and the realm "KERBEROS.SCO.COM" will be treated as two
completely different realms by Kerberos.
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