why does salspasswd2 always append a realm?

[Jo Rhett]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> that doesn't solve the problem. As soon as an admin-user contains a  
> realm (e.g. not just "admin" but "admin at mydomain.com") this admin- 
> user can only manage accounts for mydomain.com. But I need an admin- 
> user that can create and manage users for arbitrary domains/realms  
> on a virtual domain environment.
>
> So I really need to login without a realm.

Wrong.  You need a login where the realm matches the hostname of the  
machine, which will solve the problem for you.  If you check the sasl  
debug, you'll see that "no realm" becomes the result of gethostbyname 
() during the sasl query.

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Jo Rhett
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