[7452] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos and Xyplex 1620
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blair Nowakowsky)
Tue Jun 11 02:14:07 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 96 22:00:03 GMT
From: nowakowsky@arc.ab.ca (Blair Nowakowsky)
In article <4p8m5t$gfc@aglaia.forthnet.gr>, angel@spark.net.gr (Angelos Vasdaris) wrote:
>putnamd@atlodbs1.hayes.com (Dennis Putnam) wrote:
>
>>>
>>> We've got a kerberos V5 server (Linux 1.2.13) and two Xyplex 1620 (LAT
>>> 6.0.0 / 6.0.1) access servers.
>>>
>>> We allow access to dial up users (Dynamic PPP) by using PAP
>>> authentication via Kerberos.
>>>
>>> What I need to do is to allow users change their passwords in a way.
>>> It would be great to use a cgi/Netscape interface. Right now only root
>>> can maintain the kerberos's users database.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to do it over xyplex's interface? Has anyone done it
>>> yet?
>>>
>>>
>
>>You can change the password from the Xyplex with the command:
>
>>define port user kerberos password
>
>>It will prompt for the new password and require a retype to verify it.
> Obviously
>>you will have to do the change before enabling PPP but it works fine here on
>>our 1620's.
>
>On my case that command does not work for some reason. 9I mean it
>prompts for a password but does not read it.Then it disconnects.
>Probably I'm not doing something right. I think the problem is I'm not
>running kadmind5 daemon on the Linux machine,but when I'm trying to
>I'getting the following errors:
>
>penelope:/krb5/bin# kadmind5
>kadmind5: cannot get service entry for changepw (Unknown error).
>kadmind5[8788]: Kerberos V5 administrative server starting.
>kadmind5[8788]: kadmind5: Bad file number - dispatch error.
>kadmind5: Bad file number - dispatch error.
>Segmentation fault
>
>Any ideas?...
>
>
>angel.
I think there is a switch on the Xyplex MX-1620 servers to tell it which type
of Kerberos server you are using ie: K4 or K5. I would be very interested to
know what you learn. We have a menu system on our Xyplex. I want to add an
option that will run the command for the user.
TNX
Blair.
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