Principal naming

Jeff Blaine jblaine at kickflop.net
Fri Jan 18 14:23:34 EST 2013


On 1/18/2013 2:13 PM, Bob Liu wrote:
> You should look at it this way... |primary/instance at REALM
>
> |In the case of a user, it's the same as your username. For a host, the
> primary is the word |host|.
> The instance is an optional string that qualifies the primary.  In the
> case of a user, the instance is usually null, but a user might also have
> an additional principal, with an instance called "admin".
>
> You might want to check out "kadm5.acl " to see how "/instance" is being
> used.

Bob, yes, I understand all of that.

I think you misread my question.


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