[s4] "realm" handling

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Oct 12 16:55:47 MDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:34 +0200, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
> Hi Andrew & list,
> 
> through some checks and work on the s4 codebase I discovered that the 
> handling of the realm value (lp_realm(...) call) is a bit a mess. 
> Sometimes it is upcased in the right manner when in use by KERBEROS, 
> sometimes not and especially it's never lowcased when used as DNS domain.
> 
> Therefore I propose this patch. Please comment on!

It looks very interesting, but each change needs a test to show that it
is correct - you are probably right that this really does matter, so we
should get it right once and for all.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
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