[14365] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.7L: /usr/athena/bin/rkinit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cat@MIT.EDU)
Wed May 29 14:52:09 1996
From: cat@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:52:01 -0400
To: "Darrin B. Jewell" <jewell@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: jewell@MIT.EDU
While I was investigating the bug I noticed that even though the error
occured, the ticket file seemed to be sucessfully created on puttanesca, so
there shouldn't be a immediate problem. The bug will continue to be
investigated, but for now you shouldn't worry about the error.
>
>System name: carbonara
>Type and version: KN02ca 7.7L (1 update(s) to same version)
>Display type:
>
>What were you trying to do?
> Obtain kerberos tickets for a remote athena host, to
> be stored in the file /tmp/tk.jewell on that host.
>
> % /usr/athena/bin/rkinit puttanesca -f /tmp/tk.jewell
> Kerberos initialization (puttanesca)
> Password for jewell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU:
> rkinit: Bad packet type while obtaining remote tickets:
> read: expected to receive 1802268519 bytes, but only had room for 1029
>
>
>What's wrong:
> I received an unexpected response from the rkinit program, when
> using the -f option.
>
> If I use rkinit without the -f option, it appears to work fine:
> % /usr/athena/bin/rkinit puttanesca
> Kerberos initialization (puttanesca)
> Password for jewell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU:
>
> I first noticed this problem when attempting to obtain
> tickets from my own machine, which is non-athena but
> does have kerberos 4 intalled. I was able to repeat the probem
> on a normal athena machine, as is demonstarated here.
>
>What should have happened:
> I was hoping to get tickets for the remote host, or else
> perhaps a different type of error message.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> man kerberos
> man rkinit
>
>As I am curious, I would appreciate it if I could be notified
>as to the status of this problem. Am I doing something wrong?
>Is this a known bug? Is there a workaround?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Darrin
