Creating enterprise principals with kadmin

Brandon Allbery ballbery at sinenomine.net
Sat Sep 13 13:33:41 EDT 2014


On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 18:52 +0200, Rick van Rein wrote:
> I did find that the -E (MIT) or —enterprise (Heimdal) switch work to
> login to a principal user at example.com@EXAMPLE.COM; without the flag, I
> need to escape the first @ with a backslash; the Ticket Viewer of Mac
> OS X also needs this backslash.  It’s almost as if that backslash is
> what makes up an enterprise name.

It's more correct to say that something needs to tell it that the first
@ doesn't indicate the realm, and backslash is the usual "escape
character" to avoid special handling of characters. Presumably using the
enterprise flag also tells it to expect two @s and treat the second as
the realm.

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