Changing host name and address

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Feb 7 09:45:12 EST 2002


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Huang <Thomas.Huang at jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

    Thomas> Hi,

    Thomas> My group is planning to relocate our KDC host.  This also means changing 
    Thomas> the IP address and the host name.  Do we need to recreate the host key 
    Thomas> after the relocation?  Will we have to reconfigure the existing KDC after 
    Thomas> the relocation (i.e. dumping and reloading the database)?


The canonical hostname is part of the key, so if this changes a new
key is needed.

That should be all that needs to change.




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