Kadmin service principal revisited

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Wed Sep 3 10:54:52 EDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:32:38PM -0700, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> Sun compatibility is one reason.  The lack of a GSS-API name type
> corresponding to "kadmin/admin" is another.  
> 
> The Sun RPCSEC_GSS API assumes the use of host-based service principal
> names.  Specifically, rpc_gss_set_svc_name() and rpc_gss_seccreate()
> assume the use of host-based service principal names.

Actually, the name type issue is a flip side of the Sun compatibility
coin.

Nico
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