Kerberos to file server

Tillman tillman at seekingfire.com
Mon Aug 4 21:02:20 PDT 2003


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:26:41PM -0700, Michael Collette wrote:
> The FreeBSD Handbook has a Kerberos tutorial, but it's apparently out of date 
> or something just ain't right.
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kerberos.html
> 
> First thing it asks me to do is initialize the Kerberos database with the 
> "kdb_init" command.  I don't have a kdb_init command on this system.  I then 
> just installed the krb5 port, and it doesn't have that command either.  
> Double checked the package list.
> 
> It looks like a number of things don't match up to the tutorial.  Is there 
> some new procedure out there to configure a Kerberos enabled machine, or am I 
> just missing some key component in a perfectly fine tutorial?
> 
> Thanks,

The handbook is out of date -- it cover Kerberos 4, not 5. Check out my
previous posting to the questions@ list on the topic:

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg19447.html

-T


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