Turning off hostname canonicalisation

Henry B. Hotz hotz at jpl.nasa.gov
Mon Sep 12 14:16:08 EDT 2005


OK.

As implied by my question, I think it should be settable by "service".   
I can imagine needing one setting to support the SPNEGO stuff for web,  
but a different setting for kerberized telnet.  Hope that doesn't make  
it "really hard" to do right though.

On Sep 12, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> The answer is 'no'.  Settings in [appdefaults] are not for reading by
> the Kerberos libraries.  They are for reading by the application.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>
> Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
>> As another branch of this subject tree:  The option being discussed is
>> for [libdefaults].  Will the parsing code pick it up in [appdeafaults]
>> as well?  I would imagine that different app's might be coded
>> differently and might need different behavior to work correctly.
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:02 AM, krbdev-request at mit.edu wrote:
>>
>>> Without
>>> canonicalisation I would need to create keytab for app.test.com and
>>> distribute to every system, which can be painful in a bigger
>>> environment. So
>>> I see a need to keep canonicalisation on a service by service case
>>> and  not
>>> as a global switch.
>>
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