Disable krb5 telnetd authentication

J. K. Cliburn jcliburn at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 19:58:31 UTC 2006


Can someone please tell me how to configure /usr/kerberos/bin/telnetd to 
turn off kerberos authentication?  I'm starting telnetd within xinetd 
with the following /etc/xinetd.d/krb5.telnet file:

[root at petrel xinetd.d]# cat krb5-telnet
# default: off
# description: The kerberized telnet server accepts normal telnet 
sessions, \
#              but can also use Kerberos 5 authentication.
service telnet
{
         flags           = REUSE
         socket_type     = stream
         wait            = no
         user            = root
         server          = /usr/kerberos/sbin/telnetd
         server_args     = -a off -X KERBEROS_V5
         log_on_failure  += USERID
         disable         = no
}

Unfortunately, whenever I attempt to establish a login session, the 
server still attempts to authenticate to a kdc server.

[jcliburn at osprey profile.d]$ telnet petrel
Trying 192.168.1.6...
Connected to petrel.
Escape character is '^]'.

     petrel (Linux release 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 #1 Thu Feb 2 17:23:41 EST 
2006) (0)

login: jcliburn
Password for jcliburn:
login: Cannot resolve network address for KDC in requested realm while 
getting initial credentials
Login incorrect
login:





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