another ldap bug

[Will Fiveash]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:32:23AM -0600, Praveenkumar Sahukar wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jun 6, 2006 at  3:30 AM, in message
> <20060605220012.GE23943 at sun.com>,
> Will Fiveash <William.Fiveash at sun.com> wrote: 
> > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 04:13:38PM - 0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
> >> Another issue; just after the assert() I see:
> >> 
> >> snprintf(princ_name, sizeof(princ_name), "kadmin/%s@%s", hp-
> >h_name, 
> > global_params.realm);
> >> 
> >> Isn't this presumptuous in regards to the hostname used when doing
> this
> >> on a multi- homed system?
> > 
> > As I get further I realize that on my Solaris system:
> > 
> > gethostbyname(localname);
> > 
> > sets hp- >h_name to the first component of a FQDN.  So on my Solaris
> box
> > my FQDN is foo.sun.com, hp- >h_name == foo.  The result is that the
> > snprintf() above creates the princ kadmin/foo at ACME.COM.
> > 
> > This needs to be fixed.  Perhaps a call to krb5_sname_to_principal()
> > would be better?
> 
> gethostname and gethostbyname is also used in kdb5_util. So kdb5_util
> too need to be fixed. 

Yes, I see what you mean.  This should also use
krb5_sname_to_principal().

-- 
Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Austin, TX, USA (TZ=CST6CDT)