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Re: kdb5_create problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Stacy)
Mon Feb 5 17:30:04 1996

Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 17:09:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Don Stacy <dstacy@lycos.com>
To: Chiiwen Liou <chiiwen@illustra.com>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9602051954.AA27689@owl.illustra.com>


> 	I followed instruction "KERB55_UNDER.SOLARIS24" to install 
> Kerberos v5b5 on sun 4m solaris2.4.  After I install kerberos, I
> run "kdb5_create" and get the following message:
> # kdb5_create
> kdb5_create: Improper format of configuration file while retrieving 
> default realm name
> 	How can I solve this problem?
> Thanks in advance!!
> -Chiiwen

   I don't know if this is your problem, but when I first installed K5B5 
on my system, I got that message when I foolishly forgot to copy 
krb5.conf to /etc ... doh! :)
   I guess it could also mean that if krb5.conf is in /etc, that perhaps 
there is a bad value or format? dunno :)

                                     lateron...
dstacy@lycos.com


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