Turning off hostname canonicalisation

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:59:41PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> writes:
> 
>     Nicolas> The proposed set/change password version 2 protocol deals
>     Nicolas> with principal aliasing...
> 
> 
> It requires that the KDC be able to enumerate all the principals that
> a particular service can be known as.  That is not compatible with
> case insensitive keytabs in an interoperable manner.

Case variations can be handled without help from this protocol.

What this protocol does is allow systems to discover what aliases (aside
from case) their principals may respond to.

Nico
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