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Re: Extension to krb5_unparse_name

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Thu Oct 11 14:26:02 1990

Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 12:55:41 -0400
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: krbdev@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Theodore Ts'o's message of Thu, 11 Oct 90 12:09:58 -0400,

> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 12:09:58 -0400
> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

> P.S.  I've already rewritten parse.c and unparse.c to handle arbitrary
> principal names, using backquoting to protect components which contain
> '/', '@', and '\0'.  unparse.c, of course, already has the interface
> already.  I'm planning on dropping them into the library, if there are
> no objections. 

Before you put this in, let me examine the reasons from the meetings of
last fall/winter to see why we agreed to not worry about this quoting.

John

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