Kerberos and Telent

[David Santoro_1]

I have a HP UX 11.23 system. This system does not used or is configured with KERBEROS. However the kerberos library file libkrb5.sl exists under /usr/lib. In a recent test we removed this file and now telnet returns the error that is cannot file this file. My question is if we have not configured kerberos that why is telnet looking for this kerberos library file? Thanks in advance

[Dennis Handly]

>if we have not configured kerberos that why is telnet looking for this kerberos library file?

Because telnet(1) links against libkrb5 and it must be there. (See "chatr /usr/bin/telnet.) Whether it makes calls into that lib is a different question.

Note: you can't remove files like that, you can only remove complete filesets.