Hi Ben,

thx for your explanation. I have to look for an easier way. I think an
export and import of the user principal names without realmname from the
old to the new realm will be easier. One disadvantage are a lot of new
keytabs and users have to set new passwords.

Andy
> The realm name is part of the salt used as input to the password hashing
> process.  Normally, the salt is not stored in the database and the default
> salt is computed at runtime by concatenating the realm and principal name.
> Changing the realm without changing the password-derived keys will require
> manually setting an explicit salt on all password-derived keys.  Renaming
> a realm is not a common operation, so good tooling has not been developed
> and incorporated into the release.
>
> -Ben Kaduk



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