KFW 3.0, XP SP2, VMWare, and Principals with digits

[Jeffrey Altman]

There are known bugs in KFW 3.0 related to principals with digits
and locales other than US_EN.  These problems have been fixed in the
source repository however MIT has yet to release a build that fixes
the problems.

Jeffrey Altman


Matthew J. Smith wrote:
> All-
>   I have installed KFW 3.0 on XP SP2, running under VMWare for testing.
>  I understand that VMWare may be throwing in an unsupported unknown, but
> I wanted to throw this out anyway.  We use an MIT KDC 1.4.x, but am
> experiencing the same behavior when using my Active Directory.  I have
> noticed the following when using the Network Identity Manager:
> 
>   I *can* authenticate and receive my TGT successfully when using a
> principal composed entirely of alpha characters, such as "matt at UCONN.EDU".
> 
>   I *cannot* authenticate when using a principal containing one or more
> digits, such as "matt2 at UCONN.EDU".  As a matter of fact, when using such
> a principal, all I see in the "Credentials" text area is "(No identities
> specified)", and there is no password field.
> 
>   The command line "kinit" authenticates successfully in both cases.
> 
>   I have previously seen this behavior running XP under QEMU, but I no
> longer use that configuration.  I do not run any Windows desktop
> natively for comparative testing.
> 
>   Any ideas on whether this is a problem because I am running XP
> virtualized, or if I have a misconfiguration somewhere?
> 
> Thank you all,
> -Matt
> 
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