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Re: Problems with rlogin?

daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Tue Jul 19 12:15:30 1988

To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Mon, 18 Jul 88 12:05:58 EDT
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

> 	   rlogin:Kerberos rcmd failed: Principal unknown (kerberos).
> The problem here is that the machine is not properly registered with
> Kerberos for providing rlogin service.  The unknown principal is
> "rcmd.m11-115-5", which Kerberos must know about in order for you to
> get tickets:

A second problem is that the error message doesn't report what
principal name it couldn't identify.  A much better error message
would be:

rlogin:Kerberos rcmd failed: Principal "rcmd.m11-115-5" unknown (kerberos).

				Jerry

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