DES keys have parity checks built in.   Your made up key probably
is not valid.

Exercise: add a check for key validity to asetkey in the add key from 
command line case.


On Monday, September 17, 2012 12:01:48 AM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> I'm attempting to automate creation of a new cell in a VM,
> and I'd like to be able to create a random KeyFile without ever
> using Kerberos.
>
> I can't seem to get it to work right (bos communications fail),
> so I'm wondering if someone has a working example of this.
>
>
> root@amd64:~# asetkey add 1 "deadbeefbabeb00b"
> root@amd64:~# bos_util list
> kvno    0: key is '��
>                        ' '\336\255\276\357\272\276\260\013'
> kvno    1: key is '��
>                        ' '\336\255\276\357\272\276\260\013'
> All done.
>
>
> I get errors like this:
>
>
> root@amd64:~# bos status -localauth -server localhost
> In tkt_MakeTicket: key_sched returned -1
> bos: running unauthenticated
> bos: failed to contact host's bosserver (communications failure (-1)).
> root@amd64:~# ps uax | grep bos
> root       956  0.2  3.4   9820  4180 ?        Ss   03:55   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/bosserver
> root       960  5.0  0.5   6028   656 tty1     S+   03:55   0:00 grep bos
>
>
>
>
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