[18823] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.20: ksu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Feb 27 16:14:08 2001
Message-Id: <200102272114.QAA17776@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 12:05:57 EST."
<200102271705.MAA07766@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:14:04 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> ksu: No such file or directory while verifying ticket for server
Looks like you don't have a keytab or srvtab, so ksu can't verify that
your password is correct. (Any entity on the net can construct a
valid-looking ticket given a known pasword, not just the KDC.)
> I should have gotten a root shell, since ksu's default options are
> mostly like 'ksu root -n $USER/root'.
Oh, not exactly, no... I think it peeks into root's .k5login file and
tries to figure out which principal will work.
