Help with ewranglers.com machines

Changing a Password

To change your password, use "kpasswd" when logged in (via ssh) to shell.ewranglers.com.

MacOS X and Kerberos

OS X Applications like Appleshare, Mail, telnet and ssh understand how to use GSSAPI (Kerberos) credentials to authenticate. These are almost always preferable to other forms of authentication, largely because after you get your Ticket Granting Ticket (by using kinit or the equivalent GUI), you don't need to type yopur password again until it expires, which is after 10 hours.

There's only one file that needs to be created or modified for OS X to know how to contact the appropriate ewranglers.com servers: /etc/krb5.conf. If you want to edit it by hand with something like vi, emacs, or pico, you just need these few lines in /etc/krb5.conf:

[libdefaults] default_realm = EWRANGLERS.COM dns_lookup_realm = TRUE

Instead of creating that by hand, you can install it with an Installer DiskImage.

If the installer doesn't automatically startup, double-click the "krb5conf-installer.pkg" file to have your Mac install the file for you.

Shell Access to ewranglers.com servers

Interactive (shell) logins are available via ssh (Kerberized or not), Kerberized telnet, and Kerberize rlogin.
Connect to "shell.ewranglers.com"

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