Error accessing kadmin

[Tyson Oswald]

thank you for your reply, i have created the kws/admin principal.  I 
also created root/admin.  I even double checked my spelling my listing 
the principals from kadmin.local and copying the text for the kws/admin 
principal.

On Feb 12, 2004, at 03:00 PM, Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 10:00, Tyson Oswald wrote:
>> I am hoping someone can help me with this.
>>
>> I installed Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism on Solaris 8 and
>> configured it based on the install procedure. I have the kdc and
>> kdc.master daemons running. When I enter
>> kadmin -p kws/admin
>>
>> I get Database Error! Requried KADM5 principal missing while
>> initialing kadmin interface.
>
> When you run kadmin.local and list the principals in your
> database (getprincs), does kws/admin appear?
>
> "kws/admin" was given in the documentation as an EXAMPLE,
> its not automatically put in the DB. The reader is supposed
> to create an admin principal for themselves.
>
> Example - if your normal user principal is "tyson",
> you should create a principal called "tyson/admin" for administrative
> duties.
>
> -Wyllys
>
>
>>
>> I am vrey baffeled by this error. I see very few references to it on
>> groups.google.com or even docs.sun.com.  The only ones I find give no
>> information on what the problem is or how to resolve it.  I am hoping
>> someone here can shed some light on this problem.
>>
>> At first I thought it had something to do the kadm5.acl, but those
>> acconnts exist in my keytab.  One thing to note, my krb5.conf got
>> destroyed so I created a new one, which actually solved some other
>> issues I was having.
>>
>> btw, kadmin.local works fine.
>>
>> any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> thank you,
>>
>> Tyson Owald
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