"Ashish Deshpande" <ashish_deshpande@hotmail.com> writes: > when i try doing ktutil get -p admin/admin, > i get following error... > ktutil: kadm5_init_with_password: Bad krb5 admin server hostname That means that gethostbyname() on the name of the admin server fails. Either you have specified it wrong or not at all in /etc/krb5.conf. /assar