Help: Login and Kerberos

[Russ Allbery]

Lee Eric <openlinuxsource at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,

> I have set up a Kerberos server already in my network environment and
> clients can get users principle tkt by kinit. And I hope when users
> login they can get their principle automatically. So what I need to do
> with the system? Do I need to use PAM to achieve that?

Yup, assuming that you're talking about Linux or other UNIX systems.
That's the standard functionality of any Kerberos PAM module.

> And what password will use when user login?

The Kerberos password, usually, although you have various more complex
options available to you in PAM configuration if you want.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>