[Freeipa-devel] Fedora12: Looping detected inside krb5_get_in_tkt

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:17:21PM -0600, Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
> To help ensure that my new UI patch wont break our daily builds, I've
> tried building it under Fedora 12 as it has python-assets and
> python-wehjit.  It builds fine, but when I kinit, I get this error:
> 
> [root at fedora12 ~]# kinit admin at EXAMPLE.COM
> Password for admin at EXAMPLE.COM: 
> kinit: Looping detected inside krb5_get_in_tkt while getting initial
> credentials
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

This came up on the upstream list recently; I haven't reproduced it
myself, but it looks like it'll happen if you fail to preauthenticate in
a number of ways where the KDC doesn't return a more-specific error
code.

Does the database entry for admin at EXAMPLE.COM have keys in it?
Did you type the right password?
Is there anything in the KDC logs that provides more detail?
Do you have a packet capture?  The size and contents of the e-data
returned with the error can help narrow it down.

HTH,

Nalin