krb5_sname_to_principal question

[Russ Allbery]

Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> writes:

> In Kerberos 1.5, krb5_sname_to_principal calls krb5_get_host_realm which
> (when KRB5_DNS_LOOKUP is defined) causes DNS to be queried for a
> _kerberos.FQDN TXT RR when no applicable domain_realm entry is found and
> dns_lookup_realm is set.
>
> In 1.6 the KRB5_DNS_LOOKUP ifdef'ed code was removed.  This means that
> the domain_realm section HAS to have a matching entry for the machine,
> mapping it into a realm, whereas in 1.5 this didn't need to be the case
> if the above conditions were met.

I believe this was to support server-side referrals.  The idea is that the
client will ask the server for a principal with an empty realm and the
server will figure out the realm.

I don't know exactly how this works, though.

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