How to set an operating system password to a principal

[Matt Crawford]

On Dec 26, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Gerd Pokorra wrote:
>       Hello!
>   I have a string, which holds the encrypted password from a user like
>   it is stored by Linux in the file /etc/shadow. I think the password
>   is encrypted with MD5.
>   I created a corresponding principal. Which fields do I have to set 
> in the
>   structure krb5_principal so that the principal has the same password 
> like
>   the corresponding user-entry from the operating system?

It cannot be done.  If you do a bit of reading and find out why the 
word "encrypted" is not correct in what you wrote, you'll see why this 
cannot be done.