JAVASEC - Using Java client with Windows 2003 AD with mixedcase PrincipalNames

Luke Howard lukeh at padl.com
Wed Dec 8 07:46:27 EST 2004


>As for the question on case-sensitivity, Kerberos principal names are case-sensitive. On
>MIT/Solaris/Linux KDCs one can create two separate account "alice" and "ALICE", but on Windows
>there can be only one account "alice". Windows KDC accounts are all lower-case, changing the

Windows accounts are case-insensitive; it's not correct to say
that they are all lower-case.

-- Luke

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