MacOS kinit problem

[Ken Raeburn]

On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:23, David Brown wrote:
> kinit: Unable to initialize kerberos login options: Unable to read
> Kerberos Login preferences.  The file may be missing, inaccessible or
> corrupted.
> kinit: Error getting initial tickets: Operation not permitted
>
> kinit works if run with sudo, which shows the file is not missing or
> corrupted, so I guess it is 'inaccessible'.  The protections and
> ownership of ~/Library/Preferences/
> edu.mit.Kerberos.KerberosLogin.plist look fine.  I guess there must be
> some utility applications or files which are still owned by the
> original admin user and which are protected, does anyone have any idea
> what those might be?

Check in /Library/Preferences also for system-wide configuration files.

Ken