new kerberos5 1.3.1 possible config problems

Dan Million EllEyeOh at ornl.gov
Mon Jan 5 12:35:38 EST 2004


Jacob Williams wrote:
> I'm trying to set up kerberos on a new box using red hat 9 and kerberos5
> 1.3.1.
> 
> I've gotten it compiled and installed but I cannot correctly access the
> service.  I've been hunting for a couple of days trying to find an answer
> that can help me but so far haven't found anything.
> 
> When I try to use the service in any way (even just using kinit) i get the
> response of
> kinit(v5): Client not found in Kerberos database while getting initial
> credentials
> and I cannot work out what this means or what I need to do to fix it.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of some information about this error
> and what I can do to fix my problem.

This sounds like a problem I had before.  Try putting

	noaddresses = false

into the [libdefaults] section of /etc/krb5.conf and see if that helps.

Dan



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