regression due to referral realm

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Tue Feb 10 13:34:32 EST 2009


>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> writes:

    Nicolas> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:46:52PM -0500, Sam Hartman
    Nicolas> wrote:
    >> What is the right fix here?  Do we want to substitute in the
    >> default realm, or do we want to substitute in the realm of the
    >> local host (I.E. getrealmofhost(gethostname())?

    Nicolas> What breaks here is krb5_get_init_creds_keytab() when
    Nicolas> called with a principal made by
    Nicolas> krb5_sname_to_principal().  The realm part of that
    Nicolas> principal will be the null realm.

    Nicolas> Mark's fix is to search the keytab for the first match
    Nicolas> where the realm is ignored if the principal we're
    Nicolas> searching for has a null realm.


Hmm.  I would have assumed you wanted to substitute in the default
realm or the realm of the host.  However this fix seems reasonable if
more complicated behavior than the previous code.




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