On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, George Coulouris wrote:

> kinit is behaving strangely-- it doesn't ask me for my password.
> 
> porter% kinit glc5
> NetBSD Kerberos (porter)
> Kerberos Initialization for "glc5"
> kinit: Password incorrect
> 
> I have /etc/kerberosIV/krb.conf set up, and I can see the
> datagrams going to / coming from the kerberos server in
> tcpdump. I checked my clock, it's synced to the kerberos
> server. Why does it not bother to ask my password?

It asks me for my password. I have no idea what's wrong with yours.

All I can guess is that something's returning an incorrect error code;
it's returning Password Incorrect when it shouldn't.

Are all your libraries and binaries of the same vintage?

Take care,

Bill