[233] in Kerberos
Hostname-instance problems
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 28 09:30:08 1987
From: treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Problem:
rvddown aggie vssys
fails to work using Kerberos authentication. The problem is that "aggie"
is not a valid instance name. Some programs, such as rlogin, handle this
by calling gethostbyname() to get the canonical name, then strip off the
domain information and lower-case the string. Instead of having every client
do that, I propose that we make that part of mk_ap_req() as as standard
feature.
Comments?
- Win
