Permission denied while initializing kadmin.local interface

Turbo Fredriksson turbo at bayour.com
Thu Feb 7 04:26:10 EST 2002


Quoting Andreas Hasenack <andreas at conectiva.com.br>:

> Em Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:48:06PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson escreveu:
> > Quoting Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com>:
> > 
> > > turbo at papadoc:~$ kadmin.local -p turbo at BAYOUR.COM
> > > Authenticating as principal turbo at BAYOUR.COM with password.
> > > kadmin.local: Permission denied while initializing kadmin.local interface
> > 
> > Does anyone have a suggestion why this is happening?
> 
> Hmm, you are running kadmin.local as root, aren't you?

No, that's the whole point... If using sudo/su/ksu, then it works. But I have two
'help admins' (ie, ordinary users which help out with bits and pieces) that I don't
want to give sudo/su rights to...

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