[1855] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: Problems with login.krb5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Mon Apr 1 12:06:21 1996
To: Tom Ryan <tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Apr 1996 12:06:06 -0500
In-Reply-To: Tom Ryan's message of Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:43:52 -0500 (EST)
Tom Ryan <tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu> writes:
>
> I have read everything that I can find on the net about kerberos...
>
> general info: Linux 1.2.13 system, software compiled very clean
>
> I am still having problems with login.krb5.
>
> I read in the manual that you could use this to authenticate local logins
> (advised against but possible)
The problem is in the documentation: login.krb5 turns out to
only support Kerberos4 authentication. It is also broken in other
ways. (fixing it is something we need to do.)
There really isn't yet a good way to automatically get tickets
for local logins with MIT Kerberos.
--Sam
