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Kerberos based services broke on oglala due to old srvtab.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 30 23:13:07 1991

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 23:13:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

John Carr found the problem I was having with my kerberos based services
on oglala.

The realm entry in my /etc/athena/srvtab was Athena not ATHENA.MIT.EDU.

I remember watching a fix_srvtab thing happen for an earlier release,
but either I restored an old srvtab, or the fix_srvtab failed.

Anyway, /usr/adm/messages got lines complaining that there was NO srvtab.
It was very hard to trace this.

If anyone encounters problems with kerberized services failing, double
check the realm of the srvtab file.

-wdc

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