[31290] in Kerberos
Re: Does Kerberos version 5 support i18n specifications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Weijun Wang)
Fri Jul 10 01:26:42 2009
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:25:16 +0800
From: Weijun Wang <Weijun.Wang@Sun.COM>
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To: suma <suma.s.gururaj@gmail.com>
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I don't know a solution. Java uses String.getBytes("ASCII") to encode
the principal name. Unless your KDC also uses the same encoding, there's
no workaround.
Or, you can grab OpenJDK and create your own patch. :)
Max
suma wrote:
> 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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