Root login

[Marc]

Austin Gonyou wrote:

> Assign a password to the root user. It will use that first. 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 10:46, Marc wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>In this situation I am using Linux Slackware 8 with a 2.2 kernel and 
>>with MIT Kerberos 1.2.4. I have installed the login.krb5 instead of the 
>>normal krb, my question is:
>>
>>Is it possible to avoid the root account to be checked against Kerberos 
>>and instead make only the root account to be checked in /etc/passwd 
>>using login.krb5 ?
>>
>>Regards
>>Marc
>>
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Mhh very strange, root has got a password but it will not check 
passwd/shadow file, login prompts me:

Password for root:

and if I check the traffic with tcpdump -X port 88 I see that I queries 
the KDC. Any ideas why it does that ??

Btw: I use MIT Kerberos v1.2.3 (sorry not the 1.2.4)

Marc