using '@' character in principals

[Greg Hudson]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 19:51 -0500, Stephen Ingram wrote:
> If you use an LDAP backend to store the Kerberos attributes, is it
> then easier to use a '@' in user part of the principal? I'm
> particularly interested in being able to do this without having to
> escape the '@'.

No... having to escape the '@' has to do with the shell program you're
typing "kinit" into (probably bash).  The KDB back end has nothing to do
with it.