krb5kdc: ASN.1 failed call to system time library - while

Ed Ravin eravin at panix.com
Mon Jan 12 19:25:45 EST 2004


>From somewhere in cyberspace, jhutz at cmu.edu (Jeffrey Hutzelman) said:

>Are you by any chance running kinit --renewable?  There is a known bug in 
>heimdal which will cause that invocation to issue an invalid request to the 
>KDC after 13:37:03 UTC this past Saturday, when UNIX time rolled over to 
>0x40000000.

Holy Unix timestamp holidays!

>If this is the problem, you should be able to get it to work by dropping 
>the --renewable, or adding --renewable-life=30d

We weren't doing that intentionally, but it clearly was the problem.
Adding "--renewable-life=30d" to the Heimdal kinit fixed it. 

Thank you!
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