kadmin in different time zones

[Greg Hudson]

On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 10:13 -0500, Chris wrote:
> I have a hadnful of machines that sit in different time zones.  Whenever I need
> to do work on them with kadmin (everything is MIT 1.7), it fails unless I
> temporarily switch the timezone to match the kdc.  Once I'm done, I can put the
> time zone back, and kerberized applications work normally.  Is this normal
> behavior for kadmin?

No, that's not expected behavior as far as I know; the only time that
should matter is the absolute Unix time (number of seconds since
midnight Jan 1 1970 GMT, fudged for leap seconds).

You might try comparing "date +%s" values on different machines (may
require gnu coreutils).