>This would seem to mean calling kadmin and getting the administrator to 
>authenticate.  But I can't get it to work.  kadmin seems not to be reading 
>the admin password from stdin.  Presumably its being careful about only 
>reading it from a terminal (sensible).  So how do I do this?  Is there a 
>way?  Or am I just going to have to write a HOWTO instruction list telling 
>the administrator to type in the kadmin runes?

Check out the "-k" option to kadmin (you have to put an admin key in
a keytab).  That's assuming you're using a MIT-based Kerberos implementation.

--Ken

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