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Re: How to configure a Kerberos 5 Linux client of a Solaris KDC

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Booker C. Bense)
Thu Jul 5 10:35:21 2001

Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 07:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Booker C. Bense" <bbense@networking.stanford.edu>
To: <rk21@gre.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 rk21@gre.ac.uk wrote:

> I am having trouble installing a PC running Red HAT 7.1 as a Kerberos 5
> client of a Sun KDC server running Solaris 8 and  SEAM 1.01 (Sun
> implementation of Kerberos 5).
>
> I have successfully set up a Solaris 8 Kerberos 5 client. However when I
> try to set up the PC client (on which krb-workstation and krb5-libs have
> been installed) I cannot get into kadmin on the client. It recognises the
> password correctly but I get the error message
>
>

- SEAM uses a different admin protocol than the kadmin that comes with
MIT. In practice this means that it's very difficult to use a SEAM KDC
with anything but SEAM clients. Extremely stupid on SUN's part, they
don't even given you an API to write your own admin client.

- Booker C. Bense


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