[Pulp-list] New to pulp and I receive SASL errors trying to set up consumers

[Nick Coghlan]

On 08/03/2012 07:08 AM, Lundberg, Bruce wrote:
> Since things weren't adding up, I decided to clean everything up and start
> over I unbound the repository from stapatch01, but now I cannot unregister
> any of the consumers neither from the server nor from either of the
> consumer systems. The error I get from all systems is:
> 
>  error:  operation failed: AuthenticationFailure: Error in
> sasl_client_start (-1) SASL(-1): generic failure: GSSAPI Error:
> Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
> (Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_48' not found)
> 
> There are no SASL credential files in /tmp. The pulp-server was restarted
> when I made some firewall changes, but nothing else has changed. I've
> searched the Web, the pulp mail archives, and am asking about on the
> freenode IRC channel. I can't find any information on how to clean this
> up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

That sounds very odd - as far as I am aware, Pulp 1.1 doesn't support
Kerberos at all (I had to patch my local version to handle it, and it
was a bit of a hack: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831937).

However, that error suggests *something* in the client is trying to log
in with Kerberos and complaining that it can't find a valid ticket. If
you were trying to use PulpDist's custom client I'd understand seeing
that error, but I have no idea how you could get the normal clients to
trigger it (unless 1.x has changed even more than I thought since I last
updated from upstream).

Regards,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane