OT: Setting up a Linux box with OpenSSH and Kerberos

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On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 06:56:29PM -0700, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Bob Rasmussen cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> I got a chuckle out of your "two modes" comment.

:)  But oh, too accurate an observation.

> I need to just try logging in to a server, but after authenticating a 
> Windows login via Kerberos. I don't have any idea how difficult this is to 
> set up. I guess that makes me a situational newbie.

I guess the real question (I've never used this mechanism either) is if you
need special ports opened, or if everything is supposed to happen
internally through port 22?  Any idea?

> I appreciate the Centos recommendation. I was also looking at openSuse. 
> Any thoughts?

Like Ken White, I also have OpenSuSE 11.1 and CentOS 5.5.  I'll take CentOS
hands-down for deployment these days.  Lighter, faster, text-mode install
if desired, in-place upgrades that actually -work- (OpenSuSE 11.1->11.2
left me with a trashed VDI image once, and the second time it actually
completed okay, but was so out of whack that it would be faster to
reinstall a new dist and port the data and apps than to fix everything the
upgrade broke; CentOS just -works-)...and all without the bugs that Red Hat
seems to introduce (broken perls, broken libexpat, etc.).

I'm dropping SuSE because Novell has ****ed it up beyond belief in RHEL10.
I'm dropping OpenSuSE because the community version is only marginally
better--although at least they don't ream you financially for it.

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