Bug#445063: krb5-config: default realm detection through DNS?

2007-10-03 Thread Sam Hartman
Steve == Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Package: krb5-config Version: 1.17 Severity: minor Steve The krb5-config package chooses a default value for the Steve host's default realm based on the output of the Steve dnsdomainname command. Steve This is not

Bug#445063: krb5-config: default realm detection through DNS?

2007-10-03 Thread Sam Hartman
Russ == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ SRV records can pose similar problems, but people don't seem Russ as worried about them. I'm not sure if that's because the Russ analysis of what an attacker can do with a SRV record is Russ less confusing or just because SRV

Bug#445063: krb5-config: default realm detection through DNS?

2007-10-02 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: krb5-config Version: 1.17 Severity: minor The krb5-config package chooses a default value for the host's default realm based on the output of the dnsdomainname command. This is not always the correct value. http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-krb-wg-krb-dns-locate-02.txt, which AIUI is

Bug#445063: krb5-config: default realm detection through DNS?

2007-10-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, I've also never seen MIT KRB5 respect these TXT records, so perhaps there's a good reason not to use them that I'm unaware of; but they are still mentioned in the documentation from krb5 1.4.4. Support for TXT records to do realm mapping is