Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!agate!shelby!BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU!DASCHER From: DASCHER@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (David Ascher) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos Subject: getting kinit/kpasswd/kadmin to work on a Sparcstation 1 Message-ID: <9011131515.AA02721@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Date: 13 Nov 90 15:10:20 GMT Sender: news@shelby.stanford.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Internet-USENET Gateway at Stanford University Lines: 28 I hope someone has done this before, and knows what I'm doing wrong: here goes... everything compiled fine. everything installed fine, except for tftp, which I was told I shouldn't worry about. trying to get things to run: - kerberos starts fine - kadmind runs fine - kdb_init, kdb_edit work fine >> kpasswd and kinit don't work at all: whenever it tries to do a send_to_kdc, it seg faults... >> kadmin says: kadm error for realm BROWN.EDU: Administrating host is unknown. However, I do have a /etc/krb.conf that has: BROWN.EDU BROWN.EDU hermes.cis.brown.edu admin server BROWN.EDU hermes.cis.brown.edu and this is running on hermes.cis.brown.edu.... any clues? thanks for any info David Ascher