Can't change kerberos password on Active Directory with kpasswd

[Tareq Alrashid]

Make sure you are using MIT Kerberos 'kpasswd', and NOT the Sun SEAM 1.0.
I was bitten with this a year ago, while authentication works using Sun's
tools
their kpasswd is NOT compatible with MIT's.

hth,
Tareq

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|-->-----Original Message-----
|-->From: kerberos-bounces at mit.edu
|-->[mailto:kerberos-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Tyson Oswald
|-->Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 09:47
|-->To: kerberos at mit.edu
|-->Subject: Can't change kerberos password on Active Directory
|-->with kpasswd
|-->
|-->Hello,
|-->
|-->I have setup kerberos (to Aactive Directory) authentication
|-->on Solaris 8 with SEAM 1.0.  I can authenticate withut any
|-->problems, but if I try and use kpasswd to change my
|-->kerberos password I get the following error 'kpasswd:
|-->unable to get host based service name for realm
|-->myRealm.net'.  My /etc/krb5/krb5.conf file looks like
|-->
|-->[libdefaults]
|-->        default_realm = MYREALM.NET
|-->        default_tkt_enctypes = des-cbc-md5
|-->        default_tgs_enctype = des-cbc-md5
|-->
|-->[realms]
|-->        MYREALM.NET = {
|-->                kdc = 192.168.0.252:88
|-->        }
|-->
|-->I have looked on google and didn't see any references to
|-->this error.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
|-->
|-->thank you,
|-->
|-->Tyson Oswald
|-->
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