Decrypt integrity check failed while changing password

Brian Davidson bdavids1 at gmu.edu
Wed Sep 14 13:32:35 EDT 2005


Ken,

You, of course, are brilliant.  Setting the history to 1, and then back 
up to 10 seems to fix it.  I realize that a side effect of this is that 
users can reuse any of their recent password the next time they go to 
change their password.

Thanks!

Brian

On Sep 14, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:

>> I had to do a bunch of account cleanups (~35,000 deletions) yesterday.
>> Today, I'm getting the message 'change_password: Decrypt integrity
>> check failed while changing password for "principal at GMU.EDU"' when
>> trying to change a password.  If I create a new principal, I am able 
>> to
>> change it's password.  I'm using kadmin.local -- we don't run kadmind.
>>
>> Anyone have an idea what I deleted that I shouldn't have?
>
> I suspect that since you deleted kadmin/history, you're getting this 
> error
> from deep within the kadmin library when it's trying to access the 
> password
> history.  That's just a guess, though.  You're getting this message 
> from
> kadmin.local, right?
>
> How you recover from this ... well, I have no idea, actually.  Did you
> happen to save the old kadmind keytab?
>
> --Ken
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