[4924] in Athena Bugs
Re: rpc.mountd NFS mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Mon May 14 00:36:49 1990
Date: Mon, 14 May 90 00:36:32 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [4913]
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
[4913] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Athena Bugs 05/11/90 02:24 (9 lines)
Subject: rpc.mountd NFS mapping
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.
--[4913]--
This is not true... some people have /etc/srvtab with uppercase letters
in the name. For instance, AlefNull. The proposed solution here will
break such machines.
-Richard
