[294] in Kerberos
Re: misparsable/ambiguous error message
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Sun Dec 20 16:13:15 1987
To: <srz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <srz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Sun, 20 Dec 87 02:12:14 EST
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> Just to add some more fuel to the flames, the version of nfsid I
> copied over to LCS is losing on realm names. For instance, I
> can do an nfsid to host 'paris.MIT.EDU', but not for 'paris.mit.edu'.
> Another case where case-sensitivity is causing problems. This would
> result in the same error message that Jerry got...
As I have indicated before, I would recommend fixing this particular
problem by making Kerberos case-insensitive. Then, an improved
error message ("realm does not match", or whatever) would become
genuinely helpful.
Jerry
