login.krb5 not accepting root password

[Russ Allbery]

Someone <please at nospam.net> writes:

> I have now got login.krb5 to work but somehow it won't accept root, so I
> cannot login as root anymore, I thought that it would check /etc/passwd
> if it doesn't work with kerberos (the authentification) but somehow it
> looks like it doesn't. I am using Linux slackware 8 with MIT kerberos
> 1.2.3. Does anyone have an idea ?

I don't believe login.krb5 supports MD5 passwords.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>