On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 14:00 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:03:56AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 09:50 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > > Some older platforms (such as RHEL 5) do not support the 'realm'
> > > directive in nsupdate messages. As a result, dynamic DNS update support
> > > doesn't work properly on those systems.
> > > 
> > > The 'realm' directive was added to remove ambiguity in systems where
> > > multiple Kerberos realms were in use. It is there to account for cases
> > > where a default realm has not been specified in /etc/krb5.conf.
> > > 
> > > With this patch, we will auto-detect at configure time whether nsupdate
> > > has 'realm' support or not. If it does not, we will leave it out of the
> > > update message. The user will need to manually set a default realm
> > > in /etc/krb5.conf in order to avoid any potential issues with GSSAPI.
> > > 
> > > It was originally suggested on IRC that we should make this an option we
> > > pass to configure, but I don't really see any value in that. I think the
> > > auto-detection is more reliable in this case.
> > 
> > Sorry, I forgot to note in my original email that this addresses
> > https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1138 and I attached patches for
> > both master and sssd-1-5 (they differ only by the debug level
> > specifications)
> > 
> > I have not directly tested these patches, but I have asked the original
> > reporter of the bug to do so and provided him with a scratch build. I
> > will include the results of those tests when they are available.
> 
> I tested basic functionality on RHEL-5 and F-16 (regression testing)
> and dynamic DNS update worked fine.
> 
> Ack.

Pushed to master and sssd-1-5.

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