Kerberos errors in Mac OS X Telnet
When using Mac OS X's built-in telnet client and certain RIT VMS servers, you may experience the following error:
[ Trying KERBEROS4 ... ]
Kerberos Login:
Please enter your principal name: mk_req failed: Can't find Kerberos ticket or TGT
You may ignore these errors at this time. If you wish to surpress these errors, use one of the following methods:
Telnet command-line options
Telnet may be launched with the following command to surpress Kerberos errors:
telnet -X KERBEROS_V4 server.name.or.ip
Telnet's .telnetrc file
Using a text editor, create the file ".telnetrc" in your home directory with the following contents:
rit.edu auth disable KERBEROS_V4
This will automatically disable Kerberos authentication. Note that this requires you to telnet rit.edu; if you wish you disable Kerberos to additional servers, you would edit your file as such:
rit.edu auth disable KERBEROS_V4
vaxa.rit.edu auth disable KERBEROS_V4
