[Samba] samba4 : [kerberos part kinit work but no kpasswd

[Rowland Penny]

On 13/05/14 08:42, MARTIN boris wrote:
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> i want to clarify the situation here.
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> i have no user root, when i do my kinit, i do it on the administrator account, a hight privilege samba 4 account.
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> I do it being the local root user on the client machine, but the fact that i am root have no releavance here, i could user a standard local account on the client and do my
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> kinit administrator, the behavior would be the same.
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> the missanderstood come from a bad copy/cut when i do a kinit ,I always do a kinit administrator... ;)

OK, but please try and post exactly what is on the screen, as you can 
see here, posting partial commands can lead to confusion.

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> And for me the computer i use to authentify against samba 4 is always a "client" no matter it is the server itself or another linux client, as long as i do a kinit , the machine is a samba4/AD/kerberos client ?
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Personally, I refer to anything to do with the server as 'the server' , 
any other machine would be a client. You are probably technically 
correct, but again it confused the issue.

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> Does this clarify the situation ? does anyone have any idea on why my kpasswd are failing ?
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Yes and possibly ;-)

There is a possibility that you are using the wrong kpasswd, if you run 
'man kpasswd' does it say 'MIT' at the top ?

If so, try 'apt-get install heimdal-clients' and then try again.

Rowland
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> best regards