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pending/732: Re: kadmind4 !!!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jul 2 15:36:05 1999

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>Number:         732
>Category:       pending
>Synopsis:       Re: kadmind4 !!!
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   unknown
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 02 15:36:01 EDT 1999
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   From: "Tareq M. Alrashid" <tma@po.cwru.edu>
   Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:32:11 -0400

   I have gone through the docs/faq/and the krbdev/kerberos mailing lists.
   Did create the extra principals (shown below) as was posted by Ken H. =
   and Tom Y.
   but I still can't get the server to come up. What is meant by service =
   name in service=20
   database? Was I supposed to create a service name for kadmind4!

   KADM Server starting in the OVSEC_KADM mode (parent process id 16359).
   error:  Could not find service name in services database
   Admin Server (kadm server) has completed operation.

The error message (in kadmin/v4server/kadm_server.h) is admittedly
vague.  Sorry about that.

The problem is that you need to define kerberos_master in your
/etc/services file:

kerberos_master	751/tcp				# Kerberos authentication

The V4 compat server should probably be changed to fall back to port 751
if it's not in /etc/services, or else the error message should be made
more clear.

						- Ted

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