[6200] in Kerberos
Re: "Server not found in Kerberos database" error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Soonam Kahng)
Thu Nov 9 22:35:02 1995
From: soonam@isse.gmu.edu (Soonam Kahng)
To: jnovak@cam.ov.com
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 22:21:07 -0500 (EST)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <1995Nov9.183913.1396@arl.mil> from "jnovak@cam.ov.com" at Nov 9, 95 06:39:13 pm
>
> I've been attempting to install Kerberos Version 5 under Solaris 2.4 and have
> been struggling miserably. Let me interject the disclaimer of admitting to be
> a novice both to Kerberos and any modern day Unix system. So, my problems have
> been Kerberos-specific and non-Kerberos related because of my lack of
> experience.
>
Well, I have a similar problem when I install Kerberos.
SUN can not resolve FQDN of your clients. You have to change /etc/hosts
entries and /etc/nsswitch.conf files.
Write FQDN first at host table, like
111.111.111.1 myhost.mydomain.edu myhost
and modify nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns nisplus
regards,
<Soonam>
> I'm trying to test the rsh, rlogin, and rcp client services. The problem
> seems to be universal that the server is not found in the Kerberos database,
> specifically, the rsh message is:
>
> rsh: kcmd to host SERVER failed - server not found in Kerberos database
>
> I've got entries in my Kerberos database for host/SERVER@domain where SERVER
> is the FQDN of the host on which I'm trying to execute the rsh command. I also
> have a host entry for the client, as well.
>
> I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I've done the ex_st command for both
> hosts for the "host" service and placed each individually on respective
> machines in /etc/v5srvtab.
>
> Also, doing nslookup on my server hostname from the Kerberos server
> successfuly resolves the name and IP address. I'm totally clueless at this
> point what is wrong or how to go about debugging this problem. Any help would
> be truly appreciated.
>
> Thanks -
>
>
