krb5_init_ets on Mac OS X?

Ken Hornstein kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Fri Jun 14 11:00:00 EDT 2002


>>Any ideas why this isn't defined on OS X?  If I comment out this line,
>>I get an error trying to log in:
>>
>>debug1: Kerberos password authentication failed: Unknown credential cache type
>
>This problem is unrelated to krb5_init_ets.  Kerberos for Macintosh 
>(and Kerberos for Windows) use an in-memory ticket cache instead of 
>the Unix-style file in /tmp.  Perhaps OpenSSH is trying to manipulate 
>the ticket cache and doesn't expect the in-memory cache.

This happens on KfM if you have the line:

	ccache_type = 4

In your krb5.conf.  (Other things may cause this, but this is just an
idea).

--Ken



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