default domain reverts to hostname?

[Jo Rhett]

It may appear that the answer is
	servername: name I want to use for local realm

Any reason I shouldn't do it this way?  Any better way?

Jo Rhett wrote:
> Okay, I know this was hashed out a while ago so I'm sure there's a good 
> answer for it, but I can't seem to find this in the archives.
> 
> With virtdomains: yes, if you specify defaultdomain: mydomain.com, then 
> what happens is that authentication against the database always sets the 
> realm to $hostname.
> 
> This isn't a good behavior.  What if the hostname changes?  What if the 
> tools used to edit the database don't know (or need to) the current 
> system hostname?
> 
> Isn't there a way so that 'jrhett' or 'jrhett@${defaultdomain}' 
> authenticate with sasl with a realm set to the default domain?
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Jo Rhett
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