Linux To ADS: correct time, but "Clock skew too great .."

Scott Lowe slowe at nospameplus.com
Fri Jul 20 09:22:21 EDT 2007


In article <mailman.112.1184912661.4121.kerberos at mit.edu> Sonja
Benz<sonja.benz at de.ibm.com> wrote:
>  Hello,

>  I try to set ab Kerberos authentication for a Linux client to ADS.
> The behavior is strange: Obviously the client communicates with the
> ADS server, e.g. I get an "Preauthentication failed while getting
> initial credentials" if entering a wrong password and the password is
> locked after entering repeatedly a wrong password. However, "kinit"
> never successes, but when entering the correct password says "Clock
> skew too great while getting initial credentials". Surely we did
> check the time at client and server. It is correct! 

>  Any ideas, what else could be wrong and give this error message?

Stupid question, I know, but did you verify AM/PM on both
ends?Sometimes that's easy to overlook.

Regards,
Scott Lowe
ePlus Technology, Inc.

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