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Re: using '@' character in principals

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Mar 1 23:49:28 2011

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Stephen Ingram <sbingram@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 19:51 -0500, Stephen Ingram wrote:
> If you use an LDAP backend to store the Kerberos attributes, is it
> then easier to use a '@' in user part of the principal? I'm
> particularly interested in being able to do this without having to
> escape the '@'.

No... having to escape the '@' has to do with the shell program you're
typing "kinit" into (probably bash).  The KDB back end has nothing to do
with it.


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