[clug] Kerberos - KDC

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Sat Jul 17 13:07:57 GMT 2004


On 2004 Jul 17, , at 4:42 PM, Joel Plane wrote:
> I'm trying to setup Kerberos 5 on RedHat 7.3
> I'll be using it to authenticate telnet.
>
> I have created the Master KDC but I'm still having troubles
> When I try to log into telnet I receive the following error:
> "Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm while getting initial
> credentials"
>
> Any Ideas?

You need to have either a correct /etc/krb5.conf file with the KDC 
address configured on the client or you need to have the KDC SRV 
entries in your DNS.

To test it use kinit and klist.

Kim
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