Question on a very old (2006) Kerberos bug...

[Dana Brand]

Hi all,

I am trying to track the outcome of an old resolved bug:
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=4190

that seems to have crawled back into the current version. Please see my original email below, when trying to contact the original coder.

Thank you very much!
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Dana Brand
Systems Adminstrator
School of Computing Science, 
Simon Fraser University
PhD Candidate
University of British Columbia

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Stephen C Buckley" <sbuckley at mit.edu>
To: "Dana Brand" <brandd at sfu.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 11:41:11 AM
Subject: Re: Question on a very old (2006) Kerberos bug...

Hi Dana,

My best advice would to submit your inquiry to the krbdev list and see what happens.

best

s
On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:16 AM, Dana Brand wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have found your contact on http://www.kerberos.org/contact.html
> 
> I was trying to contact an old developer with regards to an old bug that just seems to have resurfaced in our current setup - could you please forward to whom you think would be the appropriate contact?
> 
> Getting a hold of the correct version/sources, would solve a great deal of pain with the undergraduate students using our labs here.
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> -------------------------
> Dana Brand
> Systems Adminstrator
> School of Computing Science, 
> Simon Fraser University
> PhD Candidate
> University of British Columbia
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: "Dana Brand" <brandd at sfu.ca>
> To: jaltman at mit.edu
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 11:05:09 AM
> Subject: Question on a very old (2006) Kerberos bug...
> 
> Hi Jeffrey,
> 
> I am not sure if you still answer this e-mail address, hoping for the best here...
> 
> I am a computer systems admin with the school of Computing Science at a smallish university in Vancouver, Canada. We have some Ubuntu computer labs here that need to authenticate to both kerberos and ldap university wide directories. 
> 
> It's a bit of a transition state here (well, lasting for a couple of years now) where we gotta take a user through double authentication and mount some cifs partition as a home for them. Problem is, when user hits a space by mistake (easily done in a lab environment to wake up dormant computers), the kerberos authentication doesn't go through, but the ldap one does, so confused user is logged on with no home.
> 
> I have been working on this issue for a couple of months now, with no good solution (took a while to figure out the whitespace was the issue in the first place). Today I ran into this very old RT ticket that was assigned to you and apparently resolved, that describes our exact situation: 
> 
> http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=4190
> 
> Do you have any idea what has happened to this particular branch of development? Why is this error hunting us now after 7 years? Any tip would be much appreciated!!!
> 
> As for environment, we are running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, with this krb package version:
> ii  libkrb5-3                                                   1.10+dfsg~beta1-2ubuntu0.3          MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
> 
> Thanks again!
> Dana Brand