kerberos password change in master-slave environment

Mike Friedman mikef at ack.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Mar 24 17:44:50 EST 2004


On Wed Mar 24 10:12:31 2004, Sam Hartman said:

>     Subu> Is there a more elegant solution, than say propagating
>     Subu> corporate wide kerberos database every 5 min or so ?
> 
> First, this actually works fairly well.
> 
> But the MIT client at least will try contacting the master (based on
> the setting of config file parameters) if it gets an error from the
> slave.

Sam,

Could you elaborate a bit?  First of all, does 'error' include just
incorrect password (because the new, correct, one hasn't yet propagated)?

Secondly, to which config parameters do you refer?

Thanks.

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