attribute type Microsoft

1.2.840.113556.1.4.771

servicePrincipalName

also known as Service-Principal-Name

The Kerberos service principal names an account answers to, multi-valued. Get one wrong, or duplicate an SPN across two accounts, and Kerberos for that service quietly fails or falls back to NTLM, which is a long afternoon if you are not looking here first.

OID
1.2.840.113556.1.4.771
Name
servicePrincipalName
Aliases
Service-Principal-Name
Kind
attribute type
Arcwho allocated the number
Microsoft 1.2.840.113556

Schema

Syntax
String(Unicode)
Single-valued
no

Definition

attributetype ( 1.2.840.113556.1.4.771 NAME 'servicePrincipalName' SYNTAX '1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15' )

Appears in: OpenLDAP msuser.schema, Active Directory schema. Primary source. Spotted an error? Tell me.

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