Kerberos 4 Authentication

[Gurganus, Brant L]

Yes, the kinit command fails saying bad password and klog succeeds.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Altman [mailto:jaltman2 at nyc.rr.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:03 AM
To: Gurganus, Brant L
Subject: Re: Kerberos 4 Authentication

Gurganus, Brant L wrote:

> Using Kerberos for Windows 2.6.5, I am trying to get a Kerberos 4
ticket
> for cs.rose-hulman.edu (KDC: galaxy.cs.rose-hulman.edu).  When I do so
> with what I am 100% sure is a correct password, I get a bad password
> error code.  I double checked that the times on the client system and
> the KDC are the same, and they are.  Are there any other reasons that
I
> would get a bad password error code when the password is correct?  I
> have yet to find an answer in searching the Web.

This KDC is an OpenAFS 1.0.4 kaserver.   Does obtaining a TGT fail with

	kinit -4 user at CS.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU

and succeed with

	klog user at cs.rose-hulman.edu

with the same password?

Jeffrey Altman


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