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34.Dd April 11, 1999
35.Dt KRB5_425_CONV_PRINCIPAL 3
36.Os HEIMDAL
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm krb5_425_conv_principal ,
39.Nm krb5_425_conv_principal_ext ,
40.Nm krb5_524_conv_principal
41.Nd converts to and from version 4 principals
42.Sh LIBRARY
43Kerberos 5 Library (libkrb5, -lkrb5)
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In krb5.h
46.Ft krb5_error_code
47.Fn krb5_425_conv_principal "krb5_context context" "const char *name" "const char *instance" "const char *realm" "krb5_principal *principal"
48.Ft krb5_error_code
49.Fn krb5_425_conv_principal_ext "krb5_context context" "const char *name" "const char *instance" "const char *realm" "krb5_boolean (*func)(krb5_context, krb5_principal)" "krb5_boolean resolve" "krb5_principal *principal"
50.Ft krb5_error_code
51.Fn krb5_524_conv_principal "krb5_context context" "const krb5_principal principal" "char *name" "char *instance" "char *realm"
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53Converting between version 4 and version 5 principals can at best be
54described as a mess.
55.Pp
56A version 4 principal consists of a name, an instance, and a realm. A
57version 5 principal consists of one or more components, and a
58realm. In some cases also the first component/name will differ between
59version 4 and version 5.  Furthermore the second component of a host
60principal will be the fully qualified domain name of the host in
61question, while the instance of a version 4 principal will only
62contain the first part (short hostname).  Because of these problems
63the conversion between principals will have to be site customized.
64.Pp
65.Fn krb5_425_conv_principal_ext
66will try to convert a version 4 principal, given by
67.Fa name ,
68.Fa instance ,
69and
70.Fa realm ,
71to a version 5 principal. This can result in several possible
72principals, and if
73.Fa func
74is non-NULL, it will be called for each candidate principal.
75.Fa func
76should return true if the principal was
77.Dq good .
78To accomplish this,
79.Fn krb5_425_conv_principal_ext
80will look up the name in
81.Pa krb5.conf .
82It first looks in the
83.Li v4_name_convert/host
84subsection, which should contain a list of version 4 names whose
85instance should be treated as a hostname. This list can be specified
86for each realm (in the
87.Li realms
88section), or in the
89.Li libdefaults
90section.  If the name is found the resulting name of the principal
91will be the value of this binding. The instance is then first looked
92up in
93.Li v4_instance_convert
94for the specified realm. If found the resulting value will be used as
95instance (this can be used for special cases), no further attempts
96will be made to find a conversion if this fails (with
97.Fa func ) .
98If the
99.Fa resolve
100parameter is true, the instance will be looked up with
101.Fn gethostbyname .
102This can be a time consuming, error prone, and unsafe operation.  Next
103a list of hostnames will be created from the instance and the
104.Li v4_domains
105variable, which should contain a list of possible domains for the
106specific realm.
107.Pp
108On the other hand, if the name is not found in a
109.Li host
110section, it is looked up in a
111.Li v4_name_convert/plain
112binding. If found here the name will be converted, but the instance
113will be untouched.
114.Pp
115This list of default host-type conversions is compiled-in:
116.Bd -literal -offset indent
117v4_name_convert = {
118	host = {
119		ftp = ftp
120		hprop = hprop
121		imap = imap
122		pop = pop
123		rcmd = host
124		smtp = smtp
125	}
126}
127.Ed
128.Pp
129It will only be used if there isn't an entry for these names in the
130config file, so you can override these defaults.
131.Pp
132.Fn krb5_425_conv_principal
133will call
134.Fn krb5_425_conv_principal_ext
135with
136.Dv NULL
137as
138.Fa func ,
139and the value of
140.Li v4_instance_resolve
141(from the
142.Li libdefaults
143section) as
144.Fa resolve .
145.Pp
146.Fn krb5_524_conv_principal
147basically does the opposite of
148.Fn krb5_425_conv_principal ,
149it just doesn't have to look up any names, but will instead truncate
150instances found to belong to a host principal. The
151.Fa name ,
152.Fa instance ,
153and
154.Fa realm
155should be at least 40 characters long.
156.Sh EXAMPLES
157Since this is confusing an example is in place.
158.Pp
159Assume that we have the
160.Dq foo.com ,
161and
162.Dq bar.com
163domains that have shared a single version 4 realm, FOO.COM. The version 4
164.Pa krb.realms
165file looked like:
166.Bd -literal -offset indent
167foo.com		FOO.COM
168\&.foo.com	FOO.COM
169\&.bar.com	FOO.COM
170.Ed
171.Pp
172A
173.Pa krb5.conf
174file that covers this case might look like:
175.Bd -literal -offset indent
176[libdefaults]
177	v4_instance_resolve = yes
178[realms]
179	FOO.COM = {
180		kdc = kerberos.foo.com
181		v4_instance_convert = {
182			foo = foo.com
183		}
184		v4_domains = foo.com
185	}
186.Ed
187.Pp
188With this setup and the following host table:
189.Bd -literal -offset indent
190foo.com
191a-host.foo.com
192b-host.bar.com
193.Ed
194the following conversions will be made:
195.Bd -literal -offset indent
196rcmd.a-host	\(-> host/a-host.foo.com
197ftp.b-host	\(-> ftp/b-host.bar.com
198pop.foo		\(-> pop/foo.com
199ftp.other	\(-> ftp/other.foo.com
200other.a-host	\(-> other/a-host
201.Ed
202.Pp
203The first three are what you expect. If you remove the
204.Dq v4_domains ,
205the fourth entry will result in an error (since the host
206.Dq other
207can't be found). Even if
208.Dq a-host
209is a valid host name, the last entry will not be converted, since the
210.Dq other
211name is not known to represent a host-type principal.
212If you turn off
213.Dq v4_instance_resolve
214the second example will result in
215.Dq ftp/b-host.foo.com
216(because of the default domain). And all of this is of course only
217valid if you have working name resolving.
218.Sh SEE ALSO
219.Xr krb5_build_principal 3 ,
220.Xr krb5_free_principal 3 ,
221.Xr krb5_parse_name 3 ,
222.Xr krb5_sname_to_principal 3 ,
223.Xr krb5_unparse_name 3 ,
224.Xr krb5.conf 5
225