krb5_init_context failed

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Friday, December 30, 2005 06:12:48 PM -0500 Ken Raeburn 
<raeburn at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Dec 30, 2005, at 10:39, Huub wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've created a krb5.conf file but verify_krb5_conf says it fails:
>
> I'm not familiar with the program, but a man page I found on the web
> seems to indicate that it prints messages telling you what it thinks
> is wrong.  You mention that "it fails", but you don't say how, what
> messages might've been printed, etc....

I'll randomly guess that the problem is the presence of comments for which 
the '#' is not the first character on the line.  I don't know if this was 
fixed recently, but older versions of MIT Kerberos could not handle this.

-- Jeff