[6592] in Kerberos
Re: K4 login program in K5: srvtab questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sun Feb 4 12:27:21 1996
To: frnkzk@arcturus.bears.org (Kevin Kane)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: hartmans@MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Date: 04 Feb 1996 12:14:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: frnkzk@arcturus.bears.org's message of 3 Feb 1996 22:13:23 GMT
>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Kane <frnkzk@arcturus.bears.org> writes:
Kevin> I am trying to make the K4-based login program that comes
Kevin> with the K5 distribution work as the main login program.
Kevin> What I am having trouble with, however, is setting up the
Kevin> K4 srvtab correctly so that it will correctly fetch the
Kevin> root password. (I assume that is the problem, anyway) I
Kevin> have modified the program so that it will accept either a
Kevin> local password in /etc/passwd, or a Kerberos password.
Kevin> I have confirmed that it is not a problem with it
Kevin> incorrectly seeing the console as a non-secure terminal,
Kevin> because if I put a root pw in /etc/passwd, it will come up
Kevin> ok.
The srvtab for a machine is not associated with that machine's root
password. Instead, each machine that should allow root logins with a
password should have a password in /etc/passwd. Also, you can sort of
have a global root password (principal root), although this is not
intended to be used; it is a side effect of the way the code is
written.
