Trying to get Kerberos5 with Solaris 10.
Douglas E. Engert
deengert at anl.gov
Tue Apr 1 16:08:28 EDT 2008
Mukarram Syed wrote:
> Any help regarding this would be appreciated. We are pretty much stuck.
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> Thanks
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> # mukarram
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> From: Mukarram Syed [mailto:muksyed at stanford.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:12 PM
> To: 'kerberos at mit.edu'
> Subject: Trying to get Kerberos5 with Solaris 10.
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> Hi,
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> I am trying to install krb5 on Solaris 10 and have been rather successful.
What version of Kerberos?
How do you know you are successful?
> But I am running into some problems, hence this email.
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> I could login to the box using a local account. I could then "kinit
> username" and I get my kerberos tokens and I could view them via "kinit". I
> could also do a "kdestroy"
Note: Solaris 10 has Kerberos too. Are you using the Solaris commands
in /usr/bin? (but not ksu.)
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> However when I do a "ksu", I get the following error:
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> bash-3.00$ ksu
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> WARNING: Your password may be exposed if you enter it here and are logged
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> in remotely using an unsecure (non-encrypted) channel.
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> Kerberos password for username/root at stanford.edu: :
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Do you have that principal in the KDC database? Why is the realm name
in lowercase? Kerberos is case sensitive, and usually has uppercase realm names.
> ksu: Server not found in Kerberos database while geting credentials from kdc
> Authentication failed.
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> I checked the krb5.keytab which I have downloaded with wallet and installed
> it.
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> I have also checked google
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> and this error usually appears when there is a FQDN problem. I have checked
> this and fixed this problem.
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If you fixed it then what problem are you seeing?
> The below clip is from this link:
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> http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Software/kerberos/troubleshootin
> g.html#misc_2
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> ---CLIP START---
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> (various clients): Requesting host principal without fully-qualified domain
> name
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> ksu: Server not found in Kerberos database while getting credentials from
> kdc
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> ksu: Incorrect net address while geting credentials from kdc
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> I've seen this caused because the host uses /etc/hosts to resolve name
> lookups before dns and the line for the host in /etc/hosts contains the
> un-fully qualified domain name before the fully-qualified one.
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> For example /etc/hosts might contain:
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> 141.142.1.1 trepid trepid.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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> Change this to:
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> 141.142.1.1 trepid.ncsa.uiuc.edu trepid
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> I have also seen this problem caused by the /etc/hosts has a different IP
> address in it for a host from what the DNS server has (using an nslookup).
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> ---CLIP END---
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> I don't know what else could be the issue.
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> Also when I try to login to the box using my krb password, I get permission
> denied errors even though I have populated my ~/.k5login file with
> username at stanford.edu
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> Appreciate the advice.
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> Thanks
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> # mukarram syed.
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