[916] in Athena Bugs
Re: Why does RCP between my 6.0 RT and my 6.0 vax say Principal Unknown?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue Sep 13 23:26:04 1988
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 88 23:24:58 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [909] in Athena Bugs,
Because the authentication in kerberos generally works user-to-host,
not user-to-user. You don't have osage registered with Kerberos (and
a service key in /etc/srvtab), so rcp can't get the tickets it wants.
There is little user-to-user authentication in Kerberos that actually
works well or indeed is even in use.
If you want user@host-to-user@host trust, use .rhosts and expect the
"normal rcp" fallback.
