[OpenAFS] Port 4444?

Ken Hornstein kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:04:40 -0400


>I've been testing 1.4.  It seems like aklog still needs port 4444 on
>the Kerberos server opened.  My Kerberos v5 server is on a different
>computer than the OpenAFS server.  Some of the docs I'm reading seem
>to indicate that port 4444 is only needed to convert between v5 and v4
>tokens.  Thanks for any clarification.

The aklog that comes with 1.4 _should_, by default, not need to talk
to the 524 server (which generally runs on port 4444).  You can make
it do so by adding the -524 switch, but by default it will construct
a V5 ticket and use that to authenticate to the AFS fileserver.

--Ken