Excellent explanation, Ken. I don't feel stupid at all
for asking my question now that I see it's not as obvious
as I thought it would be.
I'm glad I asked.
Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> What's the criteria host-principal-used-or-not is based on
>> for various apps? There has to be some sort of crite
>What's the criteria host-principal-used-or-not is based on
>for various apps? There has to be some sort of criteria
>I am not privvy to or maybe a documented list of common
>apps and what they require?
The base Kerberos protocol specification doesn't talk about naming,
because naming ends up bei
Ken Raeburn wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2007, at 20:45, Jeff Blaine wrote:
>> It's my understanding that any Kerberos application server
>> (let's say we're going to offer FTP service) needs to have
>> a host principal for the FTP server host *in addition to*
>> an ftp/whatever principal. Why? I am clearl
On Jan 8, 2007, at 20:45, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> It's my understanding that any Kerberos application server
> (let's say we're going to offer FTP service) needs to have
> a host principal for the FTP server host *in addition to*
> an ftp/whatever principal. Why? I am clearly failing to
> remember s
[ Really embarassing complete brain failure ]
When I played with MIT Kerberos 1.4.3 11 months ago, I understood
this concept. Apparently I'm not aging gracefully, as I can't
seem to find the documentation that got me through it.
I see no real explanation of 'host' principals in the MIT
docs. Th
On Jan 4, 2007, at 19:29, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> MIT Kerberos 1.5.1 under Solaris 9 SPARC.
>
> dbx output below.
>
> The real problem: $(prefix)/var and $(prefix)/var/krb5kdc are
> not made at 'make install' time.
>
> Solve this by making those dirs. This should be caught instead
> of coredumping, a
On Jan 5, 7:25pm, Russ Allbery wrote:
} Subject: krb5-sync 0.3 released
Hi Russ, hope your week is starting out well. Greetings and similar
wishes to the rest of the list.
> I'm pleased to announce the initial public release of krb5-sync.
>
> krb5-sync is a toolkit for updating passwords and ac
