Which directory to run executables out of

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From: Aviel Rubin
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:10

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I have just installed kerberos, and I am confused about something.
I have the program kinit in /usr/athena/bin/kinit, and there also
seems to be a copy in /usr/athena/kinit. 

The copy in /usr/athena/kinit does not seem to be accessing the right
database. I always get a password incorrect error when I shouldn't.

When I use /usr/athena/bin/kinit, the wierd thing is that it works for
a while, and then after a while, it says:

[82] barnone:/usr/athena> kinit
Rubin (barnone.citi.umich.edu)
Kerberos Initialization
Kerberos name: dude
kinit: Retry count exceeded (send_to_kdc)


Has anyone experienced this before? 


I guess my questions are: Do I execute the programs from the
[USER] (in my case /usr/athena) directory as described in the
operation notes, or from the /usr/athena/bin directory? What
are the differences, and why are they both there? How come
sometimes kinit works, and then all of a sudden, I get the above
error? Has anyone else encountered these problems?

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