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Re: Warning: tgt not verified

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamey Maze)
Thu Sep 26 16:20:09 1991

Date: 26 Sep 91 19:38:06 GMT
From: jnm@tdun.nosubdomain.nodomain (Jamey Maze)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU

In article <9109261526.AA28512@tsx-11.MIT.EDU>, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
|> 
|>    Date: 26 Sep 91 13:01:38 GMT
|>    From: jnm@tdun.nosubdomain.nodomain (Jamey Maze)
|>    Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
|>    Sender: owner-comp-protocols-kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU
|> 
|>    When I do a "ksu" I get the error "Warning: tgt not verified"
|> 
|>    Can anyoune tell me what this means?
|> 
|> What this means is the machine that you ran ksu on did not have a
|> /etc/srvtab file, so ksu couldn't verify that the tgt really came from
|> the Kerberos KDC.

Thanks Ted! You pointed me in the right direction. As it turns out, I had just changed the hostname on this workstation. It had a srvtab file, but the rcmd.{hostname} entry was for the wrong host. Live and learn...

Also appreciate the explanation of how ksu works. Thanks again,

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