kinit fails against active directory 2003-sp2 when user has > ~35 groups

[Jeff Saxton]

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Thanks everyone :)upgrading to a less ancient version of MIT K5 fixed it.
Apparently RedHat ships 1.2 :-O



Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> 
> 
> Jeff Saxton wrote:
> I am seeing kinit fail 
> 
>> Which kinit? MIT? Heimdal? What version?
> 
> against M$ Active directory when the
> user has > ~35 group memberships. anyone else seen this?
> 
>> The ticket contains the Microsoft PAC, i.e. user and group authz
>> information.
>> The ticket can get quite large. Even Microsoft has set a limit
>> that gets bigger with each release.
> 
>> Google for this: site:microsoft.com PAC size
> 
>> Which will lead to among other things:
> 
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327825
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832572
> 
> 
> kinit(v5): ASN.1 encoding ended unexpectedly while getting initial
> credentials
> 
>> This sounds like an ASN.1 parser problem with a large PAC.
> 
> 
> when the number of group memberships are reduced to < 20 it works!
> 
> 
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