telneting into solaris 8 kerberized telnetd prompts for passwd

[Peter Himmelfarb (Excell Data Corporation)]

Synopsis of issue I'm experiencing:

 

   a user is prompted for their password when using a kerberized linux
telnet client

   to access a kerberized telnet server on a solaris 8 host.

 

Test environment:

 

   Windows 2003 KDC 

   (2) Linux hosts running kerberized telnetd

   (1) solaris 8 host [SEAM 1.0.1 including patches 109223-02, 109805,
110060]

       running kerberized telnetd and kerberized ftpd

 

History of successful kerberos interoperability:

 

-        user can telnet from linux host to linux host without having to
enter password

-        user can ftp from linux host to solaris without having to enter
password

-        user can telnet from solaris host linux hosts without having to
enter password

 

Issue:

 

-        user can telnet from linux host to solaris telnet server but is
prompted for their 

password. Here's output from `telnet -a -x msaum01` [IP's and names
changed ]

   

./telnet -a -x msaum01

Trying 10.10.0.10...

Connected to abc.abc.com (10.10.0.10).

Escape character is '^]'.

Waiting for encryption to be negotiated...

[ Kerberos V5 accepts you as ''bullet at abc.com'' ]

done.

Last login: Fri Jun 27 11:47:13 from 10.10.0.10

Password:

 

 

Excerpt from inetd.conf:

 

telnet stream tcp  nowait root /usr/krb5/lib/telnetd telnetd -a user