MIT KDC for windows

[Douglas E. Engert]

Ish-Lev Avshalom wrote:
> 
> I'm reposting again about this problem, since I have had very little
> success, and I find it hard to believe that no-one has ever tried this
> before...
> I need to have the MIT KDC server compile on a windows system, in a way
> that
> I can deliver the binaries to a different windows machine.
> I have managed to compile it from the sources (got a krb5kdc.exe file),
> but
> I can't seem to make it work.
> I get the following error message:
> krb5kdc: Configuration file does not specify default realm, attempting to
> retrieve default realm
> 
> I think that it is looking for the file at '/etc/krb5.conf' (a location
> that
> naturally can not be found on a windows machine), and the error message
> should have been "unable to open configuration file: file not found" or
> something like that.
> So far, I have been successful at finding the file that defines the
> location of the configuration file (probably due to my poor knowledge in C
> programming...).
> I would really appreciate some guidance as to where those definitions are,
> or if I'm missing the mark here, what should I do to make it work?
> 

You can override the default location by setting the KRB5_CONFIG 
in the environment to point at the krb5.conf.
 


> --
> Thanks,
> Ish-Lev Avshalom
> 
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