Srinivas Kakde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> There is an old posting to samba-technical
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2007-July/054354.html
>
> This message says: From a security standpoint, allowing the server to
> specify its service principal is a "bad idea".
>
> Why it a bad idea?  

If the client trusts the server's assertion of what Kerberos service it
is, a server with any service principal in either the client's realm or a
realm with which it has cross-realm trust can then pretend to be any
service without failing mutual authentication.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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