Changing the KDC's hostname?

[Russ Allbery]

"bryan at virginia.edu" <catselbow at gmail.com> writes:

>      I'd like to change the hostname of my kdc, but I'm worried that
> this will break kerberos.  What steps should I take to ensure this
> doesn't happen?  I'm running MIT kerberos version 1.6.2 under CentOS 5.
> I have a primary KDC and a backup KDC.

As long as you update DNS SRV records and krb5.conf files accordingly,
changing the hostname shouldn't be an issue.  The Kerberos database itself
doesn't care about the local hostname.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>