vms, kerberos and w2k3

Jeffrey Altman jaltman2 at nyc.rr.com
Wed Feb 4 13:26:21 EST 2004


Does the VMS KerberosAdmin tool recognize the keytab file?  What does

   list keytab

report?



Juha Nieminen wrote:

> We are testing Kerberos on OpenVMS.
> We are running VMS 7.3-2 and 
> Kerberos for OpenVMS v2.0-6, client setup.
> 
> Realm and KDC are in windows2003 server.
> W2K workstations runs Reflection v.11 and we try to
> authenticate to vms server with Telnet.
> 
> Reflection Kerberos manager shows that
> authentication between Windows2003 and
> workstation is okey.
> 
> But telnet connection to vms server stops:
> "ERROR: krb5_rd_req failed: KRB5_KT_NOTFOUND"
> 
> Instructions followed:
> http://support.wrq.com/techdocs/1593.html
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/security/kerbsteps.asp
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/kerberos/kerberos_relnotes.html
> 
> But there is no ktutil in vms to merge the keytab file from windows.
> So we transferred keytab file with ftp to directory: KRB$ROOT:<ETC>KRB5.KEYTAB
> Keytab file include principals to vms host and telnet service.
> 
> Any tips are appreciated.
> 
> Juha Nieminen
> Systems Specialist
> Finnish Tax Administration
> juha.nieminen at ppt.inet.fi


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