Kerberos and NFS V4 Configuration

[Kevin Coffman]

On 10/12/06, Keagle, Chuck <chuck.keagle at boeing.com> wrote:
> Turning up the verboseness in rpcgssd did point out a keytab problem.
>
> Thanks for the tip, Kevin.  It's been a long time since I've had to
> learn from a firehose.  :-)
>
> The key elemenet here appears to be:
>
> ERROR: No usable keytab entries found inkeytab '/etc/krb5.keytab'
> Oct 12 16:34:59 denali rpc.gssd[5052]: Do you have a valid keytab entry
> for nfs/<your.host>@<YOUR.REALM> in keytab file /etc/krb5.keytab ?
>
> AIX allows both slim and full clients.
>
>         Slim clients don't need a keytab entry.
>         Full clients do.
>
> Maybe a non-AIX client can't be a slim client.

I can't speak for all non-AIX clients, but the Linux client currently
requires the keytab.  BTW, I hope turning up the verbosity on rpcgssd
wasn't requred to see that error.

K.C.