kpasswd: Authentication error: Failed reading application request

[Russ Allbery]

"Mendez, Franklyn" <fmendez at qualitytech.com> writes:

> Any ideas anyone?

> Password for user at DOMAININT.COM: 
> Enter new password: 
> Enter it again: 
> Authentication error: Failed reading application request
>
> On the Server's side I do see the client trying to change the user's
> password but no more detail:
>
> Apr 07 11:54:17 host02 krb5kdc[13289](info): AS_REQ (5 etypes {16 23 18
> 3 1}) 10.x.x.x: ISSUE: authtime 1239119657, etypes {rep=16 tkt=16
> ses=16}, user at DOMAININT.COM for kadmin/changepw at DOMAININT.COM
> Apr 07 11:54:17 host02 krb5kdc[13289](info): AS_REQ (5 etypes {16 23 18
> 3 1}) 10.x.x.x: ISSUE: authtime 1239119657, etypes {rep=16 tkt=16
> ses=16}, user at DOMAININT.COM for kadmin/changepw at DOMAININT.COM

Kind of an obvious question, but are you running kadmind on the server?
Your logs show the KDC traffic that would happen prior to the the kadmind
connection, but nothing logged from kadmind.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>