Modifying gethost...() under Solaris

[Wyllys Ingersoll]

Degrande_Samuel wrote:
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> 
> It seems to be a bit more complicated.
> SEAM doc says to use FQDN when creating service or host principals.
> That is what I did. However we use NIS with short names.
> I configured our NFS servers to use krb5 authentification.
> When mounting a shared directory (nfsserv:/path for exemple), a SEAM client 
> asks a ticket for the nfs/nfsserv.domainname principal (sorry if I use wrong 
> terminology, I'm always a Kerberos beginner). So it seems that the SEAM 
> implementation includes a workaround to convert short names into FQDN names...
> 

Yes, the Kerberos libraries will try to convert the short name to a fqdn names
by doing DNS lookups.   If it succeeds, it will use the fqdn form of the name.

BTW - this question is not really appropriate for 'krbdev', I'm moving it over
to the more general "kerberos at mit.edu" list.

-wyllys