[6599] in Kerberos
Re: K4 login program in K5: srvtab questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Kane)
Sun Feb 4 22:42:32 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 4 Feb 1996 23:28:08 GMT
From: frnkzk@arcturus.bears.org (Kevin Kane)
In article <tslybqj6miv.fsf@tertius.mit.edu>,
Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>>>>> "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.
Ok, but I'd still like to set up a V4 srvtab. Can you tell me how?
>
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Kevin Kane (Frnkzk) / Rockville, Maryland, USA / frnkzk@arcturus.bears.org
