[7380] in Kerberos
Re: How do you use kerberos telnet as root?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wes Brown)
Fri May 31 13:31:57 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 31 May 1996 15:56:33 GMT
From: wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu (Wes Brown)
Valerie Caro (valerie@cs.umass.edu) wrote:
: I am running Kerberos 4, and I am having a problem using
: telnet. If I telnet in as a normal user, everything works
: fine and it does not prompt me for the password. If
: I telnet in to the root account, it always asks me for
: the password, even though I have an entry in the /.klogin
: file. It gives the following sequence:
:
: [ Trying KERBEROS4 ... ]
: [ Kerberos V4 accepts you ]
: [ Kerberos V4 challenge successful ]
: Password:
:
: Is there some secret to telnetting in as root?
Are you running the Cygnus distribution? I have not checked the source but
I believe that this "feature" has been removed. Make sure that you
authenticate the principal that you are trying to use.
I know that the BSDi implimentation of Kerberos IV allows users to telnet
in as root even if the pricipal is not a .root principal.
Wes
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