warning while kinit (bad time/date settings)

Hans van Zijst hans at woefdram.nl
Mon Jan 25 05:22:24 EST 2010


Hi Kirill,

Looks like something's wrong with your time. Check if client and server 
have the same time and make sure they're in the same timezone.

In a Kerberos network (well, in almost every network for that matter) 
you want to use NTP to keep all clocks synchronised.

Kind regards,

Hans


skywriter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm getting an error while doing kinit on Mac OS Snow Leopard:
> 
> kinit: Warning!  New tickets are expired.  Please check your Date and Time
> settings.
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
> 
> I guess the problem is that for some reason I'm always receiving the expired
> ticket because of bad time settings.., though, the settings seem to be
> fine..
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kirill



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