kerberos password change in master-slave environment

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Wed Mar 24 21:22:47 EST 2004


>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Hornstein <kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

    >> Unfortunately, PREAUTH_FAILED corresponds to the password being deemed
    >> incorrect, since we have requires_preauth on all user principals.

    Ken> Ever hear of the phrase, "a little knowledge is dangerous"? :-)

    Ken> KRB5_PREAUTH_FAILED is an internal client-side library error.

    Ken> KRB5KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED is returned by the KDC when preauth has failed.


Hmm, I would have gotten this one wrong too.

As a side note, 1.3 KDCs should return decrypt integrity check not
KRB5KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED for incorrect password with preauth.



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