"Clock skew too great" but clocks synchronized?

Christian Huldt christian at solvare.se
Sat Sep 29 13:47:42 MDT 2012


2012-09-29 kl. 21:44 skrev simo:

> On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 16:06 +0200, Christian Huldt wrote:
>> 2012-09-29 kl. 15:58 skrev simo:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 13:50 +0200, Christian Huldt wrote:
>>>> A short time ago I stopped being able to login to a samba 3.6.3 member server on a domain a samba4 beta8 dc ,
>>>> kinit on he member reported "Clock skew too great" but the time was on 4 seconds off, and even after synchronizing the clocks I still get the same message.
>>>> date -u and date are the same on both machines.
>>>> 
>>>> I just don't understand it at all. Please, could some one think of anything?
>>> 
>>> Are you sure the time zone is the same ?
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes, I just verified that.
>> It's been working perfectly for two weeks, and the other member servers connect/kinit just fine.
> 
> Have you tried kdestroy before doing kinit ?
> Some versions of MIT save a 'clock skew' flag in the ccache and may try
> to adjust the clock based on the previous skew.

Thanks! That did it.

Though this was with heimdal-client on ubuntu server 12.04, that's not MIT afaik?



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