[Freeipa-users] Unable to change Admin password

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:58:31 -0500
Uzor Ide <ide4you at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello List
> 
> 
> We are having problem with changing/reseting password. Even the admin
> password cannot be changed.  During login users with expired
> passwords are warned that their password has expired and forced to
> change their password. But when the type new password, the operation
> fails with error "Authentication token manipulation error"
> 
> When I tried the change the admin krb5 password from the ipa-server I
> got the following error
> "Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm while getting initial
> credentials"
> 
> That's surprising because the KDC hostname resolves properly.
> 
> This what's in the krb5kdc.log each time
> 
> Jan 12 13:30:27 ipaserver.mycompany.com krb5kdc[1382](info): AS_REQ (7
> etypes {18 17 16 23 1 3 2}) 192.168.1.12: ISSUE: authtime 1294857027,
> etypes {rep=18 tkt=18 ses=18}, admin at MYCOMPANY.COM for kadmin/
> changepw at MYCOMPANY.COM
> Jan 12 13:30:39 ipaserver.mycompany.com krb5kdc[1382](info): AS_REQ (7
> etypes {18 17 16 23 1 3 2}) 192.168.1.12: NEEDED_PREAUTH: kadmin/
> changepw at MYCOMPANY.COM for krbtgt/MYCOMPANY.COM at UZDOMAIN.CA,
> Additional pre-authentication required
> Jan 12 13:30:40 ipaserver.mycompany.com krb5kdc[1382](info): AS_REQ (7
> etypes {18 17 16 23 1 3 2}) 192.168.1.12: ISSUE: authtime 1294857040,
> etypes {rep=18 tkt=18 ses=18}, kadmin/changepw at MYCOMPANY.COM for
> krbtgt/ MYCOMPANY.COM at UZDOMAIN.CA
> 
> The server is freeipa-2.0 -beta and O/S is fedora 13
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated


Is ipa_kpasswd running ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York