Sunday, June 19, 2005

Kerberos for Mac OS X

If Kerberos is not configured yet on Mac OS X (osx macos macosx) 10.4 (tiger) you'll get "debug1: Miscellaneous failure Server not found in Kerberos database" from ssh -v. The documentation at MIT Kerberos for Mac is mostly useful, but it neglects to mention that one one needs to touch a zero byte file "edu.mit.Kerberos" in /Library/Preferences in order for the "Edit Realms..." menu option in the Edit Menu to work.

It's a little unnerving that the default settings are for 7-day renewable tickets.

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