[7896] in Kerberos
Re: HELP. What happens when user not found in the passwd database ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Tue Sep 3 00:32:29 1996
To: dms03@handel.cs.uow.edu.au (Dhaval M Shah)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 03 Sep 1996 00:23:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: dms03@handel.cs.uow.edu.au's message of 2 Sep 1996 15:09:00 +1000
>>>>> "Dhaval" == Dhaval M Shah <dms03@handel.cs.uow.edu.au> writes:
Dhaval> Now my question is, What happens if the KDC is not able to
Dhaval> find the user name in its password database? Does it send
Dhaval> something across over the network in clear text - like -
Dhaval> "User Name Not found" <- well it does not, then how does
Dhaval> the workstation know that the username that has been
Dhaval> entered is an invalid username and not available in the
Dhaval> database?
Yes. It sends an error response. If you are looking at
Kerberos IV, your best bet is to obtain ebones, set it up, and use
tcpdump to watch the Kerberos transactions. The recent versions of
tcpdump decode Kerberos exchanges.
Dhaval> All help is appreciated.
Dhaval> thanks dhaval dms03@uow.edu.au
