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Re: Is this a feature

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sat Feb 17 11:44:03 1996

To: wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu (Wes Brown)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: hartmans@MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Date: 17 Feb 1996 11:31:00 -0500
In-Reply-To: wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu's message of 17 Feb 1996 15:38:29 GMT

>>>>> "Wes" == Wes Brown <wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu> writes:

    Wes> First, I am working with Kerberos IV.  I know it might me
    Wes> fixed in Kerberos V, but until that version is out of BETA I
    Wes> must deal with IV.

    Wes> I decided to try something that concerned me.  I put my
    Wes> normal pricipal in the .klogin file for root on a machine I
    Wes> maintain.  Then I did the following after kiniting as myself.

	Any principal you put in root's .klogin file can login as
root; this is the entire purpose of the .klogin file.  I'm not sure
why you see this behavior as a problem, but it's likely  that you may
be misunderstanding something or have a significantly unusual
configuration.

--Sam

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