multiple kdc's and admin servers

Klaas Hagemann kerberos at northsailor.de
Fri Nov 22 08:01:44 EST 2002


Hi Mait,

you can only have one admin server. that comes from the kerberos replication
system.
but you can spezify multiple kdcs in your krb5.conf

there you have a [realms] section:

[realms]
MY.REALM.DE = {
kdc=kerberos-server1
kdc=kerberos-server2
admin_server=kerberos-admin
default_domain = my.realm.de
}


there you can specify multiple kdcs by just adding new lines with other
kdc-entries.
so you could have:
kdc=kerberos-server1
kdc=kerberos-server2
kdc=kerberos-server3
kdc=kerberos-server4
...

and so on

ok?

Klaas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mait Mandel" <Mait.Mandel at emt.ee>
To: <kerberos at mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:36 PM
Subject: multiple kdc's and admin servers


> Hi!
>
> how do i specify my client to use multiple kdc and admin servers (for
> high availability)?
>
> regards,
> Mait
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