From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 15 19:51:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26258 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:51:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (Kirk.netunlimited.net [208.128.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26249 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brownicm@prokyon.com) Received: from molly.my.domain (Khan-122.netunlimited.net [208.165.3.123]) by Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA00884; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:50:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:49:04 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Browning To: Dan Busarow Subject: kerberos mail problem? root yes/user no?? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So, it _is_ kerberos!? I'm assuming that kerberos is not a bad thing. Would it not be better if I just configured kerberos? Is that a large pain in the pants? Do I not need it at this point? Anyone have thoughts on this? .............? Well. man kerberos just answered all those questions. Thanks, Dan. On 15-Jan-99 Dan Busarow wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Chris Browning wrote: >> And now I have a real question. I've just figured out that I loaded kerberos >> when I installed 2.2.8 recently. Yes, not paying attention, I know. So until >> I >> find a real solution I "su -K". That's fine. >> >> But now I find out that I can't get mail from either of the mailservers I >> use when I'm running X as user rather than root. I have xfmail-1.3 set up in >> root (netscape-4.5, too) and it works fine. I've been using it for a week or >> so. But in the user account xfmail log says logon, passwd accepted >> (apparently), log off (no mail apparently). No errors, just log off. Is this >> kerberos again? Or something else? Thanks to all in advance. > > Run /stand/sysinstall > > Do an upgrade with Custom distribution. Select only DES and in the > DES submenu, select only DES again. > > That should de-kerberize your system. > > Dan > -- > Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 > Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Chris Browning Date: 15-Jan-99 Time: 22:34:56 "if you believe in Nothing... honey, It believes in you." ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message