krb5_principal_intro(3)

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version 7.8.0 · 3 versions
, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ NAME ✨

krb5_principal_intro — the principal handling functions 💅 (this is the intro page for the Heimdal Kerberos 5 library, in case you were wondering who invited krb5_principal_intro(3) to the party 🎀)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay bestie, sit with me for a sec because this one is short but it's foundational. ✨

A Kerberos principal is a string that looks like an email address and contains two parts separated by . — no cap, that's literally how the page describes it, I'm just the messenger 🫶

  • The second part is the kerberos realm the principal belongs to 👑
  • The first part is a list of 0 or more components 🧚

For example:

lha@SU.SE
host/hummel.it.su.se@SU.SE
host/admin@H5L.ORG

See the library functions here: Heimdal Kerberos 5 principal functions 🔥

k bye ily, go read the actual function pages now 💖 This was krb5_principal_intro(3) from Heimdal Kerberos 5 library, Version 7.8.0, dated Tue Nov 15 2022 — slay, periodt ✨🌸🦋

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