When I run kinit it gets my Kebreros username wrong.
kinit does it's best to figure out what your Kerberos username is, but
sometimes won't be able to get it right. Typically this will be on a
machine where your local username is not the same as your NCSA username.
If, for any reason, kinit is not getting your Kerberos username correct
you can specify when you run kinit, for example if your Kerberos username
is jdoe, you would specify:
kinit jdoe
I'm using the Kerberos ftp client and I'm still getting prompted for
my username. What's up with that?
This is because you might want to log in as another user besides yourself.
If you hit return at the username prompt you should find yourself logged in.
If you want to avoid this extra bit of input simply create a .netrc
file on the machine you are connectiong from. And in that file put a line
like the following:
machine mss.ncsa.uiuc.edu login myname
Now when you ftp into the machine mss.ncsa.uiuc.edu the ftp client
will automaticaly use the username myname and you won't be prompted.
How do I encrypt my data with Kerberos ftp?
Issue the private command from the ftp> prompt.
ftp> private
200 Protection level set to Private.
Note that this causes any files you transfer to be encrypted, but not your
commands.
I had to restore my hard drive and now I can't connect to my machine with Kerberos
This is probably because the Kerberos keytab, which is stored in
/etc/krb5.keytab was wiped out. You need to
get a new host key for your host.
I have accounts in two Kerberos realms. How can I get credentials for both?
This is addressed on the
Kerberos and Multiple Principals page
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