{"id":5654,"date":"2011-02-24T08:32:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2011-02-24T08:32:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:32:41","slug":"what-is-krb5kdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/what-is-krb5kdc\/","title":{"rendered":"What is krb5kdc?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you receiving a message on startup, asking to allow krb5kdc and\/or mDNSResponder to connect through your firewall? \u00c2\u00a0Well, never fear. \u00c2\u00a0Krb5kdc\u00c2\u00a0is the Kerberos version 5 Authentication Service and \u00c2\u00a0Key \u00c2\u00a0Distribution Center (AS\/KDC). \u00c2\u00a0In other words, an operating level component involved in Security framework&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Leopard and Snow Leopard use the Kerberos framework to support\u00c2\u00a0an authenticated network connections\u00c2\u00a0between two computers, so you only have to log in once and can then\u00c2\u00a0repeatedly reconnect to the computer for different tasks without having\u00c2\u00a0to log in again. \u00c2\u00a0Your system, when a Kerberos-enabled client connects successful, is granted a &#8220;ticket&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0By default, these tickets are good for 10 hours. \u00c2\u00a0This ticket allows the system to use your systems resources, without having to re-login. \u00c2\u00a0Your credentials were given during the first login, and the ticket proves this.<\/p>\n<p>There is a documented situation, where if your clock is reset, or set incorrectly, you may see a firewall message, asking to allow krb5kdc and\/or mDNSResponder to connect through your firewall. \u00c2\u00a0The reason for this is due to clock. \u00c2\u00a0If your time\/date is set before your keychain entries time and date, then the OS will ignore that keychain entry since it is &#8220;too early&#8221; for those keychain entries to be valid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That is <\/strong>one of the reasons why the Mac OS will state \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>some applications may behave erratically<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0if your clock is set before 2001.<\/p>\n<p>More Information on this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotope.com\/content\/more-about-os-x-105-leopard-kerberos\" target=\"_blank\">More About OS X 10.5 Leopard Kerberos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you receiving a message on startup, asking to allow krb5kdc and\/or mDNSResponder to connect through your firewall? \u00c2\u00a0Well, never fear. \u00c2\u00a0Krb5kdc\u00c2\u00a0is the Kerberos version 5 Authentication Service and \u00c2\u00a0Key \u00c2\u00a0Distribution Center (AS\/KDC). \u00c2\u00a0In other words, an operating level component involved in Security framework&#8230; Leopard and Snow Leopard use the Kerberos framework to support\u00c2\u00a0an authenticated <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/what-is-krb5kdc\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,129,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->