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Re: krb5kdc & kadmind5 at same time?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Mon Jul 1 17:47:04 1996

To: bperkins@netspace.org (Brian Perkins)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Jul 1996 17:31:21 -0400
In-Reply-To: bperkins@netspace.org's message of 29 Jun 1996 17:38:55 GMT

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Perkins <bperkins@netspace.org> writes:

    Brian> I have essentially the same set of problems, on a Linux
    Brian> machine.  It looks to me as if the database locking is
    Brian> screwy, but I haven't had the gumption to go and try to
    Brian> find out why exactly.

	It is a Slackware/Redhat (and probably others) bug: gdbm
doesn't support the same locking as ndbm or Berkeley Db.

You may want to build using the option:
--with-kdb=db

	The Berkeley Db included in krb5 is somewhat unstable,
although it might work OK.

    Brian> Jared Mauch (jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net) wrote: : Is there
    Brian> a way I can run both these at the same time so we don't :
    Brian> have to take the database down when people want to change
    Brian> their passwords?  [...]

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