Error when changing kerberos password

Marcelo Magno T. Sales marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br
Mon Apr 2 12:52:54 UTC 2007


Em Seg 02 Abr 2007, Marcelo Magno T. Sales escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I have setup my FC6 box so that users can authenticate against Active
> Directory using kerberos. This is working ok.
> The first time I tried to change my AD account's password, it worked fine,
> but from the second time on I get the following error:
>
> [marcelo.sales at sf002698 ~]$ passwd
> Changing password for user marcelo.sales.
> Kerberos 5 Password:
> New UNIX password:
> Retype new UNIX password:
> Auth error: Authentication error ()
> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

Never mind. I've just found out that there's a security policy in our Active 
Directory domain that prohibits users to change their passwords with less 
than two days interval between the changes.

[]'s
Marcelo




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