An easy way around this problem is to ensure that your host/machine
exists as that name in DNS. If it's a small network, that's usually not
a problem.

So, in DNS, have machine as a PTR and machine.domain as the A record.
Add *only* the host/machine@REALM to the kdc as a principal, then your
kerberized SSHD that lives on the box will not be so unhappy. 

There *is* an inconsistency though, if you try to ssh to machineX which
is a /etc/hosts entry for machine, then it is possible you will be
denied access because sshd does not know the machine you're trying to
connect to, and kerberos will get upset when passed that info and not
allow you to login.



On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 07:51, Marc wrote:
> Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> > Marc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > : Well that's strange because I have one:
> > :     1 host/hostname.domain.com@REALM
> > 
> > Apologies for the stupid question - but this isn't literally
> > host/hostname.domain.com@REALM,
> > 
> > but rather
> > host/mymachine.mydomain@MYREALM
> > (with mymachine, mydomain and MYREALM replaced with the correct values
> > for your site)
> > 
> > I ask only because I've seen this happen before!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Simon.
> > 
> 
> Hehe, sorry I should have precised it better, no it is really correct i 
> have : host/myhostname.mydomain@MYREALM
> 
> Regards
> 
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