Modifying gethost...() under Solaris

[Degrande_Samuel]

According to Wyllys Ingersoll (Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:45:08 -0500):
> Degrande_Samuel wrote:
> 
> > 
> >
> >>>I didn't want to have to put everything in trash...
> >>>
> >>>If you think that we SHOULD really change our name services, that Sun
> >>>recommandations are really a bad idea, then we will start thinking 
> >>>about it...
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>Which Sun recommendations did I say were a bad idea?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Oh no, there's nothing YOU said about Sun recommandations. I meant
> >that all Sun manuals use short names.
> > 
> >
> 
> I believe that the SEAM documentation clearly states that FQDN names are 
> hightly recommended
> for Kerberos configurations.

It seems to be a bit more complicated.
SEAM doc says to use FQDN when creating service or host principals.
That is what I did. However we use NIS with short names.
I configured our NFS servers to use krb5 authentification.
When mounting a shared directory (nfsserv:/path for exemple), a SEAM client 
asks a ticket for the nfs/nfsserv.domainname principal (sorry if I use wrong 
terminology, I'm always a Kerberos beginner). So it seems that the SEAM 
implementation includes a workaround to convert short names into FQDN names...

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