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Re: ldap principal aliases

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Howard)
Sun Aug 30 04:15:36 2009

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> This will create problems in the AS path, because the client library
> won't expect a different principal name. In the TGS path, I think Greg
> is right (but if you're going to disable to check, I'd do it in
> libkdb_ldap rather than the KDC).

In the TGS path, it's fine a backend to always return aliases  
regardless of the setting of the canonicalize flag (after all, they  
are indistinguishable to the service from genuine principals). IIRC  
the DSfW backend does this.

-- Luke
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