On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
Quentin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Package: krb5-config
Version: 1.16
Followup-For: Bug #445063
I just installed krb5-config from scratch on a stock Debian machine. My
domain name is mit.edu, which should have been mapped to ATHENA.MIT.EDU
but was instead mapped to MIT.EDU.
I don't understand what this means.
What was written to /etc/krb5.conf? What did you expect to be written
there?
Hi-
With no configuration prompts on a fresh install, MIT.EDU was written to
/etc/krb5.conf as my default_realm. I expect ATHENA.MIT.EDU to be written
there, or at least to be prompted for the default realm.
This bug talks about getting the realm out of DNS, but there's already a
source of information about domain names to realms - the very same
configuration file, /etc/krb5.conf, includes a domain_realm mapping to
identify realms. This should be used to resolve the domain name, if
possible.
If I understand correctly, the proposal is to try to apply the
domain_realm mappings in the provided krb5.conf file to figure out what
the default realm should be? If so, there isn't any way to do this with
the current architecture: at the time that the debconf script runs, the
package hasn't been unpacked yet and the krb5.conf template is not yet
available.
Yes, my proposal is to use the domain_realm mappings in krb5.conf to
figure out the default realm. Could the krb5.conf template be incorporated
into the debconf script at build time, so that it's available when
configuring?
Thanks,
--Quentin
Both of the requests in this bug would require prompting in the postinst
instead of in the config script.
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