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Re: Default path causes wrong ktutil to run

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Jun 26 09:19:04 2001

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:19:01 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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In-Reply-To: <200106260511.BAA26818@byte-me.mit.edu>; from mitchb@MIT.EDU on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:11:37AM -0400

Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 26 Jun 2001
at 01:11:37 -0400 in <200106260511.BAA26818@byte-me.mit.edu>:

> (the less frequently used ones).  Matters are complicated because in
> the default path, /usr/athena/bin comes before /usr/bin, which comes
> before /usr/athena/etc.  ktutil, used by anyone installing a srvtab,
> is in /usr/athena/etc and /usr/bin, so the /usr/bin one is selected
> by default.  Unfortunately, the Sun binaries expect krb5.conf to be
> in /etc/krb5/krb5.conf rather than /etc/krb5.conf, which is what we
> use, so it errors out.

I'm not prepared to advocate it, but a solution might be to set
KRB5_CONFIG in the default environment.

--jhawk

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