>>>>> "Nalin" == Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> writes: Nalin> The parser didn't recognize that ";" was a proper character Nalin> for starting comments, and the lexer was spitting them out Nalin> on standard output, which happened to be your connection. Nalin> A workaround is to replace the semicolons with hash marks What pam_krb5 implementation has its own parser for krb5.conf? This seems very bogus.