Kerberos Noob

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Omar Barrera wrote:

> We just downloaded and installed Kerberos on a Debian Linux environment.
> When we attempt to run the the regression tests via Make check we receive
> the following error: GSS- API error acquiring credentials: Unspecified  GSS
> failure. Minor code may provide more information.  GSS-API error acquiring
> credentials: No Key table entry found for host/localhost at KRBTEST.  Any
> information is appreciated.

The test suite is rather sensitive to the network configuration, which is 
somewhat unfortunate.
You should make such changes so that your computer reverse-resolves its IP 
address to what your computer thinks its hostname is; this is usually 
easiest done by editing /etc/hosts.
For example, I had to edit this line:
127.0.0.1        localhost localhost.my.domain hysteresis.mit.edu hysteresis
to read:
127.0.0.1        prolepsis.mit.edu localhost localhost.my.domain prolepsis hysteresis.mit.edu hysteresis
and change my computer's hostname from hysteresis.mit.edu to 
prolepsis.mit.edu in order to let all of the tests run.  (hysteresis is a 
CNAME for prolepsis, and that redirection is followed by some of the name 
resolution routines used in some of the tests)

Hope this helps,

Ben Kaduk