[krbdev.mit.edu #3237] Kerberos does not work inside Linux vservers

Ken Raeburn via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Mon Jun 19 19:12:19 EDT 2006


I'm sorry about the delay in getting back to you -- I accidentally sent
my reply to the email address for filing the response with the bug
report but *not* sending a copy back to the original reporter of the
problem, and didn't notice for quite some time....

> > Here is the output :
> 
> Thanks!  That output looks good.  Well, maybe... did you run it in  
> the same vserver environment that the KDC would run in?  I'm guessing  
> that, in that case, we would only want to return one address.  It  
> sort of depends -- does the vserver environment hide the other  
> addresses, or just not permit you access to them?
> 
> If you run the 1.4.2 KDC in the vserver environment, does it bind to  
> the correct addresses?
> 
> > The first interfaces (--> family 17 <getnameinfo error -6:  
> > ai_family not supported>)
> > Seams to be the loopback interface.
> 
> According to my Linux system headers, it's the "packet family"  
> address type, which I'm not at all familiar with.
> 
> The loopback interface should be probed, the "loopback" flag found,  
> and the address dropped from the list before it's printed.  (Maybe I  
> should've had you turn on the DEBUG flag when building, that might've  
> produced a little more output.  Though looking at the code, there's  
> one major path where DEBUG doesn't add anything.)
> 
> Ken





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