Kerberos on AIX 5.3 : error :Cannot retrieve key from keytab

Jeffrey Altman jaltman2 at nyc.rr.com
Sun Jul 24 15:19:18 EDT 2005


kiranmehta1981 at yahoo.com wrote:

> klist -k  /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab
> bash-2.05b# kinit -k   -t /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab
> nfs/vcsaix6.vxindia.veritas.co­m
> com.ibm.security.krb5.KrbExcep­tion, status code: 0
>         message: Cannot retrieve key from keytab for principal
> nfs/vcsaix6.vxindia.veritas.... at vxindia.veritas.com
> 
> 
> When klist is able to read /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab file why is kinit
>  not able to retrive the key. 

You are using a Java version of kinit.  Does the version of Java
you are using support all of the key types included in the keytab
file?

Jeffrey Altman

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