"Missing parameters in krb5.conf" for kadmin

[Brian Candler]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 04:58:09PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 05:55 -0500, Brian Candler wrote:
> > Is this behaviour intentional? Unless I've missed something, it means I
> > can't run kadmin anywhere that hasn't had krb5.conf explicitly configured
> > with the realm.
> 
> It's a bug.  The -s flag is used to determine which service to connect
> to, but not to determine which tickets to get.  It turns out we already
> have a bug in our database for this:
> 
> http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=5890&user=guest&pass=guest

Sorry, I didn't realise it was there. Thanks for the info.

For background: I'm preparing kerberos lab exercises. I'm trying to make the
configs as simple as possible, and hence minimally scary :-)