AW: AW: Kerberos and Solaris 8

Baernreuther Rainer rainer.baernreuther at siemens.com
Thu Sep 19 02:12:41 EDT 2002


I checked my /etc/nsswitch.conf file and there is a "dns" entry in front of
the "file" entry. I also checked my /etc/resolv.conf file and it contains
one "domain" entry and two "nameserver" entries. So I think that should be
all right.

Rainer 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: hooshang [mailto:hooshang.dadgari at eng.sun.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 16. September 2002 18:23
> An: Baernreuther Rainer
> Cc: 'Wyllys Ingersoll'; kerberos at mit.edu
> Betreff: Re: AW: Kerberos and Solaris 8
> 
> 
> 
> Do you have a /etc/resolv.conf file  and dns in front of 
> files in /etc/nsswitch.conf file?
> 
> cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> 
> hosts:  dns nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
> 
> Hooshang
> 
> Baernreuther Rainer wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Wyllys,
> > 
> > I checked the configuration file /etc/krb5/krb5.conf and 
> the realms entry
> > seems to be correct. I also changed the /etc/hosts file so 
> that the fully
> > qualified name of the local system is listed first but the 
> error still
> > occurs. Could it be that there something wrong with my 
> GSS-API installation?
> > 
> > Rainer
> > 
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: Wyllys Ingersoll [mailto:wyllys.ingersoll at sun.com]
> > > Gesendet: Freitag, 13. September 2002 14:13
> > > An: Baernreuther Rainer; kerberos at mit.edu
> > > Betreff: Re: Kerberos and Solaris 8
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This means it cannot find the hostname for your kdc by looking in
> > > the /etc/krb5/krb5.conf file.  SEAM wants the krb5.conf
> > > file in its own directory (/etc/krb5/) whereas MIT 
> expects it to be
> > > just another file in the "/etc" directory, so make sure 
> you have your
> > > config files in the right place.
> > >
> > > Do you have an entry like this in /etc/krb5/krb5.conf:
> > > ...
> > > [realms]
> > >      MYREALM.COM = {
> > >             kdc = mykdc.myrealm.com
> > >             admin_server = mykdc.myrealm.com
> > >       }
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Also, make sure that in your local /etc/hosts file, you have
> > > the fully qualified name of the local system listed 
> first.  Kerberos
> > > can be picky about hostnames, its best to use the fully qualified
> > > names when creating host principals.
> > >
> > > -Wyllys
> > >
> > > Baernreuther Rainer wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I installed SEAM on my Solaris 8 computer and I configured
> > > Kerberos as
> > > > described in the Sun documentation but as soon as I start
> > > the kadmin.local
> > > > application I get the following error message:
> > > kadmin.local: unable to get
> > > > host based service name for realm MYREALM.COM
> > > > Can anyone tell me what this error message means?
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regrads
> > > > Rainer
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