[1087] in Kerberos
kadmind run out of rc.local and kprop/kpropd comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Traina)
Thu Sep 13 04:32:27 1990
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 00:50:19 PDT
From: pst@ack.Stanford.EDU (Paul Traina)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Here are two (un)interesting tidbits I found today.
I haven't tracked this one down yet, but if one attempts to run kadmind
out of /etc/rc.local, it receives a SIGHUP from some other process. My
first thought was that this is happening when /etc/rc completes, but this
makes no sense what so ever. If I'm missing something plainly obvious,
I appologise, but I'm temporarily stumped. My un-solution was to simply
have kadmind ignore the hangup signal. Now everything is peachy.
Tidbit #2 is dealing with kprop/kpropd. I set up a master server on an RT,
just as usual. I wanted to install a slave server on a Sun3. I put the
whole mess together and when I fire off a kprop, we end up with errors to
the effect that the mutal authentication between kprop/kpropd fails. Since
kerberos defaults to rcmd.<host> for authentication, yet rlogin/rsh work
properly, this isn't the problem. The interesting thing is that if I make
the slave server another RT (or the same rt) things work just fine. It's not
a byte-ordering problem because I get the same results whether a VAX or a Sun3
are tried as slave servers. My guess is that we have a word length problem
in the initial ident string sent over before the mutual athentication attempt.
It's easy enough to check, but I am feeling especially lazy at the moment and
was hoping someone else has already killed this misfeature off.
Paul
