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It seems that this patch didn't wind up in the recent kerberos
release.  Do you think somebody could review it for inclusion soon, so
that it has a chance of making it into the next release?  If any
changes need to be made, please let me know and I will make them.

Thanks!

  - a

Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu> writes:
> Sure. :)
> At first glance it looks good, but I want to have a closer look  
> before committing it (unless someone else gets to it first).  Thanks  
> for sending it in!
> 
> Adam Megacz <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> > Hi, would it be possible for the Kerberos maintainers to consider the
> > patch below for inclusion in the main libkadm5 distribution?
> >
> >   - a
> >
> > Adam Megacz <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> >> Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu> writes:
> >>>> I believe the future has already arrived.  Current MIT code should
> >>>> be capable of finding and using records like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> 	spam% dig _kerberos-adm._tcp.umich.edu srv
> >>>
> >>> This is used for the password-changing service, but unfortunately the  
> >>> RPC code used for the kadmin program still looks up admin_server, and  
> >>> uses the first IP address found when looking up that hostname.  No  
> >>> DNS, one hostname, one address, no service-location plugin support,  
> >>> no IPv6.  These do need to be fixed....
> >>
> >> This should help.
> >>
> >>   - a
> >>
> >>
> >> diff --git a/src/lib/kadm5/alt_prof.c b/src/lib/kadm5/alt_prof.c
> >> index bb87f88..48b1792 100644
> >> --- a/src/lib/kadm5/alt_prof.c
> >> +++ b/src/lib/kadm5/alt_prof.c
> >> @@ -416,10 +416,31 @@ krb5_error_code kadm5_get_config_params(context, kdcprofile, kdcenv,
> >>  	 params.admin_server = strdup(params_in->admin_server);
> >>  	 if (params.admin_server)
> >>  	      params.mask |= KADM5_CONFIG_ADMIN_SERVER;
> >> -    } else if (aprofile &&
> >> -	       !krb5_aprof_get_string(aprofile, hierarchy, TRUE, &svalue)) {
> >> -	 params.admin_server = svalue;
> >> -	 params.mask |= KADM5_CONFIG_ADMIN_SERVER;
> >> +    } else if (aprofile) {
> >> +      if (!krb5_aprof_get_string(aprofile, hierarchy, TRUE, &svalue)) {
> >> +        params.admin_server = svalue;
> >> +        params.mask |= KADM5_CONFIG_ADMIN_SERVER;
> >> +      } else {
> >> +        struct addrlist addrlist;
> >> +        int i;
> >> +        krb5_data drealm;
> >> +        drealm.data   = (void*)params.realm;
> >> +        drealm.length = strlen(params.realm);
> >> +	if (!krb5int_locate_server(context, &drealm, &addrlist, 0,
> >> +                                   "admin_server", "_kerberos-adm", 1,
> >> +                                   DEFAULT_KPASSWD_PORT, 0, 0)) {
> >> +          for (i=0;i<addrlist.naddrs;i++ ) {
> >> +            struct addrinfo *a = addrlist.addrs[i];
> >> +            if (a->ai_family == AF_INET) {
> >> +              params.admin_server  = strdup(inet_ntoa(sa2sin(a->ai_addr)->sin_addr));
> >> +              params.kadmind_port  = ntohs(sa2sin (a->ai_addr)->sin_port);
> >> +              params.mask |= KADM5_CONFIG_ADMIN_SERVER;
> >> +              params.mask |= KADM5_CONFIG_KADMIND_PORT;
> >> +              break;
> >> +            }
> >> +          }
> >> +        }
> >> +      }
> >>      }
> >>      if (params.mask & KADM5_CONFIG_ADMIN_SERVER) {
> >>  	 char *p;
> >>
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