Authentication fails after doing ktadd

sophana sophana at free.fr
Thu Oct 23 10:50:09 EDT 2003


kadmin man pages says that ktadd scramble the key before(?) adding it to the keytab.
I have the same problem and did not find how to disable that feature.
Anyone can help?


aashishpatil at acm.org (Aashish Patil) wrote in message news:<95ba727e.0310092338.4887c445 at posting.google.com>...
> Hello,
> 
> I added a new principal using 
> 
> kadmin.local -q "addprinc test3/admin at REALM.NET"
> 
> After this whenever I tried to logon to kadmin, error shown would be
> "GSS-API (or Kerberos) error while initialiazing kadmin interface"
> 
> To overcome this, I read an old post on this group to run the 
> kadmin.local ktadd command. So, after
> 
> kadmin.local ktadd test3/admin at REALM.NET
> 
> the earlier message goes. But now none of the passwords that was used
> when creating this principal is getting accepted. Both kinit and 
> kadmin reject the password. Why? And what is the solution?
> 
> Is this because of the increment in kvno?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Reg
> Aashish


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