[OpenAFS-devel] krb5kdc and windows openafs kpasswd

[Derek Atkins]

This error means you are using the AFS kpasswd; you want the KRB5
kpasswd (which should have come with your krb5 application).

The windows installer should probably make the AFS kpasswd
optional.

-derek

Jean-Marc Chaton <jcn@austin.ibm.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I experience some problems changing passwords (no problem at
> authenticating) with kpasswd from Windows
> openafs clients, no problems at all from linux clients.
> 
> kpasswd: Ubik Call failed (Authentication Server unavailable, try later)
> 
> I imagine this is the consequence of having the authentication done by
> krb5 KDCs instead of the kaservers. I'm following two paths to solve the
> problem, all advice welcome.
> 
> - find a way to tell kpasswd to ask directly the admin server, how ?
> - configure the dbservers to fake having kaservers, how ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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