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Running Kerberos as a different user than root

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave)
Wed Mar 2 16:33:48 2011

From: Dave <steiner.dave@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:23:26 -0800 (PST)
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Hi,

We've been running Kerberos for a number of years.  We've always run
all the processes (including kprop, kadmin, etc) as root.  A new group
has taken over running these machines and don't want to give the
Kerberos support people root access.  I've looked around but I can't
find out if Kerberos can run as a non-root user.

thanks,
ds
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Dave Steiner
Identity Management, ESS
Rutgers University, Office of Information Technology
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