kinit(v5): Password incorrect while getting initial credentials

Mike Dopheide dopheide at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Nov 21 20:54:06 EST 2006


Whoops.  ktadd, by default, randomizes your key (password) and tries to 
write a keytab to /etc/krb5.keytab.  Assuming you didn't successfully 
write out a keytab you have no choice but to contact your administrator 
to get your password reset.

-Mike

Dragomir Radev wrote:
> Our university recently updated to a new version of kerberos. I tried today 
> to set up a keytab but I was unsuccessful. Now, I can no longer authenticate 
> with kinit.
> 
> belobog% kinit
> Password for radev at UMICH.EDU:
> kinit(v5): Password incorrect while getting initial credentials
> 
> I tried a search on Google for the error message that I am getting but could 
> only find old messages to this mailing list which didn't propose any 
> solutions.
> 
> Can someone help?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> D.
> 
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