what is magical about kadmin.local?

[Chris Hecker]

Ah, I think I found it...I missed the fact that kadmin.local links 
KADMSRV_LIBS instead of KADMCLNT_LIBS.

Chris

On 2011/07/09 03:47, Chris Hecker wrote:
>
> I am trying to reproduce the "don't need to enter a password" behavior
> of kadmin.local and I can't seem to get it to work. If I just run
> kadmin.local with no parameters, it eventually calls
> kadm5_init_with_password with a default root/admin at FOO.COM principal,
> null password and service name, and the default initialized params
> structure with just the realm in it.
>
> I have almost 100% copied kadmin.c into a separate program, and I call
> kadm5_init_with_password with the exact same parameters, but my version
> fails and kadmin.local's doesn't (mine fails because root/admin isn't a
> valid krb account, but if I enter a valid admin princ it prompts for a
> password, and kadmin.local doesn't prompt or error on a valid or invalid
> principal). I must be missing something stupid, but I can't figure out
> what it is, the calls seem identical.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>