Kerberos as non-root

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From: Sean Casey
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1989 23:18

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(first of all, am I sending these questions to the right place?)

Has anyone successfully installed kerberos as non-root? I have an
application that needs kerberos, but kerberos isn't likely be be
installed here very soon.  Even if it were, I wouldn't have enough
privileges to change the database.

I'm wondering if there are any problems running kerberos non-root. I'm
intending to change things a bit so that it doesn't require an
/etc/services entry (why does everyone require this? sigh). Is there
anything else that might hang me up? I'm only intending on having one
application use the system.

On a similar vein, how hard is it to break kerberos up so that I can
redistribute only the kerberos client library necessary to run my
software?

Sean
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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Kerberos as non-root
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Date: 1 Apr 89 23:18:20 GMT
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