Adam Megacz wrote:
> Modifying all those krb5.conf's is not an option (clueless users can't
> be expected to do this), so I have no other choice.  Fortunately many
> libkrb5's _do_ know about RFC2052.

But they will only use DNS SRV records if the krb5.conf file permits
it and there is no domain/realm mapping entry in the krb5.conf file
for the resulting hostname or domain.

> BTW, I think understanding and valuing this sort of scenario -- where
> the AFS admin does not control the client machines and users are
> unsophisticated -- is an important hurdle that the OpenAFS community
> still needs to get over.  Afsdb/dynroot were a big step in this
> direction, though!

A good solution for this would be to provide a new RPC that can be sent
to any AFS service that requires authentication that would return a
list of local authentication domains:

 * Kerberos 4: KERBEROS.REALM

 * Kerberos 5: KERBEROS.REALM

 * Kerberos 5: ANOTHER.REALM

etc.

Then aklog could obtain the list of AFSDB records and query the servers
directly.

Jeffrey Altman

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