Re: What would cause a keytab to stop working?

[Andreas Haupt <andreas.haupt@hmi.de>]

Gedaliah Wolosh wrote:
> I created a keytab back in April for a principal.  I was able to
> authenticate successfully using the keytab until a few days ago.  As
> far as I know, neither the keytab nor the principal has changed.
>
> The timestamp on the keytab still shows as April 2005, and kadmin shows
> that the password for the principal has not changed.
>
> Nevertheless, kinit -t 'keytab' principal yields a "Password incorrect"
> error.
>
> Suggestions on where to look??

Did you change something in the configuration (/etc/krb5.conf)? The entry 
default_etype in the [libdefaults] section caused this problem here some 
time ago.

Greetings
Andreas

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