[2738] in testers
Re: Credentials cache file permissions error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Fri Dec 30 04:53:07 1994
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 04:52:03 -0500
To: mgood@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> Whenever I switch kerberos principals, I get this error:
>
> MIT Athena (starfleet-command)
> Kerberos Initialization for "mgood.dbadmin"
> Password:
> mgood.dbadmin: Credentials cache file permissions incorrect while initializing cache
This is due to a bug in xlogin (on non-Sun platforms) where the Kerberos 5
credentials cache winds up owned by root, rather than by you. As long as
you're not actually trying to use the K5 credentials, this doesn't hurt
you. xlogin will be fixed in the next vos release, but I'm not going to
bump the letter for now, so the error won't actually go away right away
'cause it won't get copied to your workstation.
Note that if you have some kind of alias that modifies your KRBTKFILE
environment variable when you grab other instances, in the longer term
you will want it to also similarly modify your shiny new KRB5CCNAME
variable. (And you thought KRBTKFILE was hard to type!)
Craig
