[14465] in Kerberos
Re: KRB5 daemon problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donn Cave)
Mon May 21 15:27:59 2001
From: Donn Cave <donn@u.washington.edu>
Date: 21 May 2001 18:41:43 GMT
Message-ID: <9ebnh7$m78$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Quoth Dan Million <lio@ornl.gov>:
| While working another issue, Tom Yu told me that login.krb5
| was supposed to set the correct file permissions on forwarded
| credentials. I modified my remote host to use login.krb5,
| and whaddaya know, it also got rid of the "eof=^A" problem.
|
| This is on an AIX system, and at some point in the past, I
| thought the prevailing wisdom was, "login.krb5 doesn't work
| well on AIX, so symlink it to /usr/bin/login." And that's
| what I've been doing ever since. Has that caveat gone away?
| Is anyone else out there even using AIX? Hello? [Insert
| sound of crickets chirping here...]
We have AIX here. I have never tried /usr/bin/login, but would
have been very surprised if it handled Kerberos credentials properly.
As far as I know, there never has been any such caveat. There have
been times when login.krb5 isn't 100% out of the box on AIX, but
what is?
Donn Cave, donn@u.washington.edu
