kpropd works standalone, but not under xinetd

[Phil Tracy]

We've found the problem, it's a mis-configuration of xinetd not a krb problem at all.

Phil Tracy

On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:37 PM, "Tom Yu" <tlyu at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Phil Tracy <ptracy at northwestern.edu> writes:
> 
>> I'm bringing up our first our first MIT Kerberos server on RHEL (other servers are on Solaris now), and I can't seem to run kpropd under xinetd.
>> 
>> If I run kpropd in standalone mode (krpopd -S) things work just fine. But it fails under xinetd with the error "Bad response (during sendauth exchange) while authenticating to server" from the master server (kprop) side. I don't see any messages on the slave server (kpropd) side, that's what prompted me to run it with -dS, but then it worked with no problem.
> 
> Are there any syslogs from the kpropd?  What's the xinetd
> configuration?