On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:05:36 +0100 sean finney <seanius@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 07:44:04AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > > Most KDCs are case-sensitive (the notable exception being AD), but DNS > > is case-insensitive. To prevent admins from having to put in all > > possible case combinations of a principal, lowercase the hostname prior > > to trying to get a principal. > > you'll have to excuse my ignorance if i'm missing something, but what > happens if the pricincpal *is* uppercase on the KDC? > > sean It depends on whether the KDC is case-sensitive. AD is generally not, so this should work fine there. On a non-AD KDC (e.g. MIT or Heimdal) it will probably fail. The idea here is to ensure that we don't have admins adding every possible case-combination of an SPN in order to handle every possible case-combination of a hostname. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
