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Re: Patch to ignore service principals when accepting connexions.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simo Sorce)
Thu Aug 26 08:26:30 2010

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:26:20 -0400
From: Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@painless-security.com>
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:33:07 -0400
Sam Hartman <hartmans@painless-security.com> wrote:

> I definitely agree that the forward/reverse resolution creates issues
> for acquire_cred.  There's a kind of annoying Debian bug open on this
> where the name you end up with depends on whether you have A records
> or just AAAA records.  Also, as you point out it is a source of
> failure.
> 
> So, I would like to express support for a configuration knob to ignore
> the hostname and to look into what we can do about acceptor-side use
> of DNS.

In Heimdal there is a function called gsskrb5_set_dns_canonicalized()
that allows you to tell your library to not do any dns lookup.

It would be a nice to have.

Simo.

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