[1479] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: Kerberos V5 realm name case sensitivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Fri Jun 16 22:04:45 1995
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 22:04:37 +0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: "John J. Marco" <johnma@sco.COM>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, johnma@sco.COM, dceivers@sco.COM
In-Reply-To: John J. Marco's message of Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:59:41 -0700 (PDT),
<9506141459.aa17561@lubyanka.pdev.sco.COM>
From: "John J. Marco" <johnma@sco.COM>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:59:41 -0700 (PDT)
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 convention which is generally used is that the realm names should be
based on the domain name of the site, in all upper case. So for
example, the realm of the host tweedledee.cygnus.com is probably
CYGNUS.COM, and there are programs that try to generate intelligent
defaults based on this convention.
Realm names are supposed to be case-sensitive; the convention is also
that they should be in upper case. One can argue whether or not the
Windows client forces the realm name to be in uppercase, although in
many cases this does prevent user input errors.
The answer is probably that it should be an option, which can be turned
off in case there are some wierd realms which are in lower case.
- Ted
