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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: shutting off Kerberos?
Date: 5 Oct 1994 08:49:58 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <36sr14$6ht@news.service.uci.edu> bob@nemesis.ps.uci.edu (bob prohaska) writes:

>Ok, if it's that hard to kill, maybe I should learn to coexist
>with it.  The real problem is that none of the other machines
>I deal with use Kerberos, and it turns out that anybody doing
>a remote login can't change their password. It just so happens
>that when I played with passwords I was on the console, and
>there passwd works.  

(I don't know what OS you are using, or what release.)
Normally (at least with FreeBSD) you have to add a special incantation
to /etc/make.conf to get kerberos at all, so normally you won't have
it.

Just remove the stuff in /etc/kerberosIV, and it will (mostly) be
disabled.  You may still have to explicitly specify things like "passwd
-l".  (You will still get kerberos warning messages.)

Geoff.
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