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Re: kinit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Penney)
Thu May 23 13:26:14 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 23 May 1996 14:53:25 GMT
From: penney@cps.msu.edu (Christopher Penney)

Adam Kaupisch (kaupisch@ucsu.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
: I am running kerberos 5 on a dec alpha and I think that I have it all
: configured, however, when I go to run kinit, it type /krb5/bin/kinit adam
: and it gives me a message "kinit: Improper format of configuration file
: when parsing name adam"  What is it talking about and what should I do to
: fix it?
: Adam

There is a problem reading /etc/krb5.conf (or whatever you defined it to
be).  It needs to be world readable and note the format is new... see the
docs.

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