login.krb5 not accepting root password

[Someone]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

So what should I do so I can login with my local root account again 
using login.krb5 ??

Regards