Randy McMurchy wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > >> AFAIK (I have never set up a Kerberos-based installation, but listened >> to a friend that demonstrated how to do it) /etc/passwd is still used in >> a Kerberos-based setup, and contains something like "*K*" in the >> password field. Only /etc/shadow is not used. And, both sftp and ssh >> link to libgssapi_krb5.so.2 :) >> > > This is incorrect. In all my Kerberos installations, there is > nothing but the system users and root in /etc/passwd. Your friend > is wrong. > Very interesting. Could you please paste the output of the following commands from one of them (assuming that the user "randy" is in Kerberos):
getent passwd randy id randy strace id randy I ask exactly for the same reason as you did for $HOME: testing that well-established glibc functions can retrieve the needed data. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
