SSO from Windows to Solaris using Kerberos: A How-To

Will Fiveash William.Fiveash at sun.com
Tue Sep 18 20:34:44 EDT 2007


On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 07:21:52PM +1000, Edward Irvine wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I eventually gave up trying to coax the default sshd on Solaris 10 to  
> play nice with GSSAPI - the show-stopper was that it failed with  
> usernames > 8 characters.

I use Solaris 10 ssh/sshd doing GSS-API auth via the Kerberos GSS mech
all the time.  What you may be running into is that Solaris has a
limitation that Unix usernames be no more than 8 characters (see man
passwd.4).  This is not a limitation of Solaris sshd.

-- 
Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Austin, TX, USA (TZ=CST6CDT)



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