kpasswd and kerberos 1.8.1

Brian Candler B.Candler at pobox.com
Tue Mar 15 13:32:09 EDT 2011


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:21:28AM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> There are two steps involved in changing a Kerberos password.  First,
> you request a kadmin/changepw ticket from the KDC using your old
> password; then, you send your new password to the kpasswd service,
> authenticated with the kadmin/changepw ticket.
> 
> Based on your KDC logs, the first step is succeeding--at least, from the
> KDC's point of view.  The second step is not, suggesting that the client
> has the wrong information for the kpasswd service, or that kadmind isn't
> running (the kpasswd service is normally implemented as part of
> kadmind).

And also: I believe that the kadmin service can't be located from DNS
information (not yet anyway).  You have to configure it explicitly in
/etc/krb5.conf



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