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rpc.mountd NFS mapping

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Fri May 11 02:24:56 1990

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 May 90 02:24:44 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

rpc.mountd uses the hostname as returned by gethostname (up to the first
'.') as the kerberos instance used to decrypt the authenticator in the RPC
request.  It should force the instance to lower case, since NFS mapping is
otherwise impossible to a machine with upper case letters in its hostname.

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