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Re: admin_acl.* files

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hascall)
Fri May 20 12:49:13 1994

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 20 May 1994 15:42:42 GMT
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)

Arthur Houle 904-487-8677 <HOULEA@mail.firn.edu> wrote:
}	I just shot myself in the foot!  I had one implementation of 
}kerberos on a Sun operating.  But, we needed a durable system with two 
}servers.  So I made kerberos on a second Sun identical to the first.

   Kerberos servers do not "peer-to-peer".  One is the
   master and the rest are slaves.

}After searching around in the code, I realized that 
}/kerberos/admin_acl.get, .add, and .mod are necessary but I can't figure 
}out how to re-create them. :(    I need help in getting this operational 
}again. 

  They are just text files with lines like:

     john.admin@IASTATE.EDU

  (our 3 are all hard links to the same file, BTW)

}Also, how does one coordinate the database of names & passwords between two 
}kerberos servers that serve the same realm, or is this completely 
}automatic?

   You use "kprop" (typically via krb_push from cron).

John
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John Hascall                   ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
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Project Vincent
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