Re: [Ietf-krb-wg] the PKU2U DN to Kerberos Principal name mapping

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu>]

--On Monday, January 28, 2008 05:55:04 PM -0600 Nicolas Williams 
<Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure that we actually want GSS_Compare_name() to sport such
> behaviour, as opposed to having a new function that does, because it's
> pushing things a bit to say that the two NAME objects passed to it are
> equal representations of the same principal.  They are representations
> of the same principal name, just not _equal_ representations of it.

That's OK.  GSS_Compare_name is defined to return a true result when the 
names represent the same entity, not only when they are the same.  This 
appears to be exactly what GSS_Compare_name is for, so no, I don't think we 
need a new interface for this.

-- Jeff


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