Heimdal KDC, Windows XP and local users

[Javier Palacios]

> I have configured Windows XP to use a Heimdal KDC for user authentication.
> All existing Windows users can authenticate against the KDC, user
> mapping is "ksetup /mapuser * *".
>
> However, Windows does not create a new local user with the same name
> as the Kerberos princical I try to authenticate as.

If you have users defined on LDAP, maybe the s+c Authentication
Package (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sc-ap/) might help you. And
if your valid users are not available anywhere, it is not hard to
modify to drop the LDAP lookups and simply create a local account.

Javier Palacios