How is the KDC user name/password protected?  I understand that the KDC encrypts it, 
which implies that the KDC must have the decryption key.  But, of cource, the KDC must 
persist this decryption key across reboots.  So, this key must be persisted in a file 
someplace.

If this is all true, then that implies that anybody having root could obtain the 
decryption key, and decrypt the KDC user name/password database.  Or have I missed 
something?

Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin

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