kadmin: Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm while initializing kadmin interface

[david.turing]

When kinit is run, it will find KDC for TGT .
Cannot contact any KDC for requested means that it can not find the KDC, 
probably the DNS can resolve the KDC host name. 
Solution is also very simple, in your krb.conf,  type your kdc's ip instead of the
KDC 's host name.  hope this would help :)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Coffman" <kwc at citi.umich.edu>
To: "yi zeng" <bigwhite at gmail.com>
Cc: <kerberos at mit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: kadmin: Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm while initializing kadmin interface


> I would suspect a simple error in the configuration of your local
> realm in /etc/krb5.conf, or a DNS issue.
> 
> Can you post your /etc/krb5.conf ?
> 
> On 10/26/05, yi zeng <bigwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, there,
> >  I set up a MIT Kerberos 5 master kdc on a pc in a private domain. I have
> > /etc/hosts mapping hostname of the pc to its ip address and /etc/krb5.conf
> > pointing kdc to the host name, which i believe correctly set.
> >  The problem is that, I can do kadmin.local but I just couldn't do kadmin.
> > It always complains:
> > kadmin: Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm while initializing kadmin
> > interface
> >  kinit with no parameters reports the similar error:
> > kinit(v5): Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm while getting initial
> > credentials
> >  but kinit works if I supply a principal from another realm (that realm and
> > its kdc is also set in /krb5.conf).
> >  I am confused that why kinit and kadmin just couldn't work in local realm?
> > Is this a feature or I missed any setting issues?
> >  Thank you very much.
> >  yizeng
> 
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