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Re: Does Kerberos version 5 support i18n specifications?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (suma)
Fri Jul 10 01:00:11 2009

From: suma <suma.s.gururaj@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
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Thanks, Max for your reply.  I appreciate it.

Until we get a solution for i18n, how are folks out there solving the
issue of authenticating users that have nultibyte characters.  Is
there a workaround?

Thanks in advance,
--Suma

On Jul 10, 9:08 am, Weijun Wang <Weijun.W...@Sun.COM> wrote:
> No support and no patch, RFC 4120 says a solution will be in future
> revisions, and we're waiting.
>
> Thanks
> Max (of Sun Java team)
>
>
>
> suma wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am unable to authenticate users with non-ASCII character names.  The
> > error that I got for kinit was:
> > --------------------------------------
> > Exception: krb_error 6 Client not found in Kerberos database (6)
> > Client not found in Kerberos database
> > KrbException: Client not found in Kerberos database (6)
> > ------------------------------------
>
> > I am using kerberos login module from JAAS for authentication.  I have
> > no issues authenticating the users that contains ASCII.  I also
> > checked the RFC-4120 and looks like the names to be ASCII-specific.
> > Do I need a patch, to make my implementation support wide characters.
>
> > Thanks,
> > --Suma
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