Ticket #78 (closed defect: fixed)
overhaul the acl module in the server
| Reported by: | kcr@… | Owned by: | kcr@… |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 3.1 release |
| Component: | zephyr.server | Version: | 3.0.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
It's got a little bit too much krb4 on the brain.
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ACL matching strategy:
Note that ACL entries of the form foo.*@REALM or *.bar@REALM will require conversion. On the other hand, they already don't do what was intended, so this doesn't seem like a major problem.
Note: The closest thing we have to a "standard" string representation of a Kerberos 5 principal name is the format defined in RFC1964 section 2.1.1 for the Kerberos Principal GSS-API name form. This description, and the distinguished variant described in section 2.1.3, are referenced in other Kerberos-related specifications and are implemented in Kerberos libraries.
The RFC1964 language actually prohibits '/' and ':' in realm names, because it contemplates only domain-style realm names. In fact, these characters are permitted in Kerberos realm names and AFAIK everyone glosses over this constraint, except possibly in the Kerberos 5 GSS-API mechanism itself.