Troubleshooting Kerberos Related Products

Troubleshooting the Kerberos Client Utilities

Troubleshooting the Kerberos Client Utilities

Kerberos utilities, kdestroy, kinit, klist, and kpasswd can return the following errors. Table 4-2 provides a list of errors with their meaning and suggested corrective actions for each error.

 

Table 4-2

Kerberos Client Error Codes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Error

 

Error

Meaning

Reason/Corrective

 

 

No.

 

Action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

kdestroy: No credentials

The credentials cache file

The credential file may

 

 

 

 

cache file found while

was not found.

have been deleted.

 

 

 

 

destroying cache. Ticket

 

Recreate the credentials

 

 

 

 

cache not destroyed!

 

(TGT) using kinit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

kinit: Key table entry

The local keytab file does

Add the principal key

 

 

 

 

not found while getting

not contain the key for

entry to the keytab file.

 

 

 

 

initial credentials.

the principal whose

 

 

 

 

 

 

credentials are being

 

 

 

 

 

 

requested.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

kinit: Client not found

The principal whose

Verify that there is a

 

 

 

 

in Kerberos database

credentials are being

principal entry

 

 

 

 

while getting initial

requested does not exist

available for the client

 

 

 

 

credentials.

in the Kerberos database.

in the Kerberos

 

 

 

 

 

 

database. If there is no

 

 

 

 

 

 

entry, you must create

 

 

 

 

 

 

it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

klist: No credentials

No credentials cache file

This could be due to the

 

 

 

 

cache file found

was found.

deletion of credentials.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recreate the credentials

 

 

 

 

 

 

using kinit or if the

 

 

 

 

 

 

credential file is

 

 

 

 

 

 

different from the one

 

 

 

 

 

 

indicated by klist;

 

 

 

 

 

 

then export the

 

 

 

 

 

 

KRB5CCNAME

 

 

 

 

 

 

environment variable to

 

 

 

 

 

 

specify the correct

 

 

 

 

 

 

filename.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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