2014-06-26 16:48:13 +00:00
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layout: post
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title: "Fedora can’t change Active Directory password via kpasswd"
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2016-02-26 15:26:26 +00:00
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date: 2013-03-05 08:55:04
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2014-06-26 16:48:13 +00:00
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tags: [fedora, kerberos, active-directory]
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permalink: /blog/2013/3/5/fedora-can-t-change-active-directory-password-via-kpasswd
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published: true
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author:
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name: Gergely Polonkai
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email: gergely@polonkai.eu
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I wanted to change my AD password today. As the AD is actually a Kerberos
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server, I was pretty sure that `kpasswd` will do the trick. However, `kpasswd`
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output looked like this:
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$ kpasswd
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Password for polonkai.gergely@EXAMPLE.LOCAL:
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Enter new password:
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Enter it again:
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kpasswd: Cannot find KDC for requested realm changing password
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I’ve checked `kinit` and `klist`, everything looked fine. After a while it came
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to my mind that password changing is done through the kadmin server, not
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through the KDC. It seems that when I set up the Active Directory membership,
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the `admin_server` directive is not get written to `krb5.conf`. So all I had to
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do was to put
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admin_server = ad.example.local
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in that file, and voilà!
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$ kpasswd
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Password for polonkai.gergely@EXAMPLE.LOCAL:
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Enter new password:
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Enter it again:
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Password changed.
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