Perhaps we should change the variable from ³host.name² to something like
³uniqueTicketId²?


On 8/10/09 8:03 AM, "Scott Battaglia" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We actually don't use the real host name (the variable just happens to be
> called host.name <http://host.name> ).  Locally we call them "cas1" and "cas2"
> I believe which has absolutely zero correlation to the actual machine names.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Andrew Feller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Michael,
>> 
>> That definitely seems possible, however I think the reason hostname is used
>> because it is difficult / impossible in a troubleshooting scenario to
>> determine where tickets come from in a cluster if there isn't something
>> meaningful.  It is true something else can be used, however it would be best
>> if it was something known to ease those efforts.
>> 
>> With that being said, I'm not saying your thought doesn't have merit.  I
>> imagine if something was created and issued in a JIRA ticket that it would
>> be included.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> A-
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/10/09 7:42 AM, "Michael Ströder" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> > Andrew Feller wrote:
>>>> >> In CAS 3.2.X, there was a change in the Spring configuration such that
>>>> >> the hostname of the server is being included automatically within the
>>>> >> Spring beans used to generate tickets.
>>> >
>>> > Hmm, in some environments it might not be acceptable for security reasons
>>> that
>>> > the real hostname of the CAS server is revealed to the browser. How about
>>> > generating a UUID (random-based, not the MAC address variant!) on every
>>> > startup and append that to the ticket?
>>> >
>>> > Ciao, Michael.
>> 
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