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From: jon@MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Re: Converting password file to kerberos database
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Date: 15 Jun 90 18:51:37 GMT
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   Jon,
   Why the condition that that the user didn't have a null key in the
   Kerberos database?
   
   > One thing Athena did when faced with this problem, is to hack the
   > admin server (an old version) to accept the unix password, so if you
   > could provide your unix password *and* didn't had a null key in the
   > Kerberos database, you could set one. 
   
Opps, my mistake.  I meant to say,

	if you could privide your unix password *and* had a null key 

The major point here was that you couldn't change the key for a user
who was already registered with Kerberos.  It only worked for people
who weren't registered.

		-- Jon