Subject: Re: kinit not asking for password?
To: None <glc5@cornell.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/08/1998 10:10:25
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 glc5@cornell.edu wrote:

> Yep, it's all vanilla 1.3, straight off ftp.netbsd.org. Am I missing an 
> obvious configuration step? I created /etc/kerberosIV/krb.conf and put in 
> my realm and server (actually, it's not exactly the server. the bsd box 
> is behind a wingate proxy for the time being. I have udp port 750 
> proxied to the real kerberos server. so the bsd box has the pc listed as 
> the kerberos server. AFAICT, this is kosher, because tcpdump shows 
> traffic going through)... do I need anything else?

The problem is that we don't know which bit of the login process is
generating that traffic.

My suggestion is my favorite form of debugging. Get the source and
sprincle it with printf's to see where it gets.

> Oh, a neat feature of having krb.conf set up.. it prevents me from 
> changing my password. I think that its existence fools the system into 
> thinking I've a local kerberos setup.. any way around this?

passwd -l

Take care,

Bill