Kerberos 5 config on a Debian box.

[J D Cassidy]

Russ,

appreciate the help. I will try what you suggest and report back.

JC


On Sat, April 5, 2008 18:58, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "J D Cassidy" <sean at jdcassidy.net> writes:
>
>
>> I am trying to set up a minimal Kerberos configuration on a Debian
>> 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.23 Intel box. When I run the usual apt-get commands
>> (apt-get install krb5-{admin-server,kdc}), I am seeing the following
>> error(s):
>>
>>
>> Unpacking krb5-kdc (from .../krb5-kdc_1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4_amd64.deb) ...
>>  Selecting previously deselected package krb5-admin-server.
>> Unpacking krb5-admin-server (from
>> .../krb5-admin-server_1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4_amd64.deb) ...
>> Setting up krb5-kdc (1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4) ...
>> Setting up krb5-admin-server (1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4) ...
>> kadmind: Improper format of Kerberos configuration file while
>> initializing context, aborting Europa:~# uname -ars
>> Linux Europa 2.6.23.14 #3 SMP Sat Feb 9 15:40:09 CET 2008 x86_64
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> At this stage, I have NOT changed / edited the config file -
>> etc/krb5.conf.
>
> I don't see anything obviously wrong with that file, but I would still
> start by deleting /etc/krb5.conf and running dpkg-reconfigure krb5-config
> to create a new one to see if that helps.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
>


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