[krbdev.mit.edu #5595] Problems with kpasswd and an IPv6 enviroment

[Russ Allbery via RT]

"Public Submitter via RT" <rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

> Removing the line:

> ::1    janeiro.example.com janeiro

> from /etc/hosts solved my problem and now both kpasswd and passwd 
> changed passwords successfully.

The presence of that line is itself a bug, possibly in local
administrative procedures, possibly in Fedora or its installer.  One
should never assign a real hostname to the loopback interface.  It causes
all sorts of problems with many applications other than Kerberos.

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