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Re: kinit problem in Kerberos V5.4

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Helm)
Mon Mar 13 13:00:26 1995

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 13 Mar 1995 17:26:39 GMT
From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
Reply-To: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)

>cache name), it gives me an error as "kinit: Invalid argument when initializing
>cache". But if I specify the -c option with a cache file name into the user's

>I am suspecting that using the default cache file name as /tmp/tkt.. caused
>kinit to fail. Is this supposed to be this way in V5 or is this a bug with

You may be using the tmpfs file system on SunOS.  There's a problem
with this (locking fcntl call, I think).  If you're doing tmpfs, you can
either change the source to direct caches to some non-tmpfs file system,
perhaps /usr/tmp, or maybe provide a SunOS-specific solution.  Or 
stop using tmpfs on the key server.


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