Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> become the same string.  In order to prevent "joe.admin" from becoming
>> the administrative identity "joe/admin" we disable support for dots in
>> Kerberos v5 principal names.
> 
> And yet somehow this isn't an issue when you use the 524 translator.
> 
> --Ken

It most definitely is an issue.  I wish I were a fly on the wall when
that discussion was taking place.  You are correct that the krb524d does
permit this overlap.  However, the correct long term change is to add
native Kerberos v5 name type support to AFS.  We have the design, it
just needs to be implemented.

Perhaps in the meantime we should add a command line switch
--permit-dotted-krb5-names

Jeffrey Altman


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