Lesson 9

Date: 3/30/2011
Kerberos Authentication
Linux for Engineering and IT Applications


Creating Kerberos principals




  • Run 
    kadmin.local


    kadmin.local: addpol users
kadmin.local: addpol admin
kadmin.local: addpol hosts
kadmin.local: addprinc mary
kadmin.local: addprinc sam
kadmin.local: listprincs
kadmin.local: quit

  • Start the Kerberos services 
    /etc/init.d/krb5-kdc start
/etc/init.d/krb5-admin-server start

  • Replace password hashes for users mary and sam with one symbol, for example, 'x' in /etc/passwd. Run 
    cd /var/yp
make
ypcat passwd


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