[7259] in Kerberos
Re: HELP ! -- need to clear admin password
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wes Brown)
Sun May 12 23:41:16 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 13 May 1996 02:32:27 GMT
From: wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu (Wes Brown)
David Alten (alten@TeleCheck.com) wrote:
: Hello,
:
: I got to be the Kerberos (IV) guy around here and don't know much about it.
:
: However, it seems I am unable to use the admin password. The password is
: correct, but I suspect the ticket has been disabled... I get the following
: message while trying to add a new user or do anything requiring admin privs.
:
: kadmin: Kerberos error: Retry count exceeded while getting password tickets
:
: I tried killing kadmind and restarting it via the -n option to use
: the cached key, but I was still unable to use the admin password.
:
: It looks like this happened yesterday. The log file shows about 30 or so
: attemps to use admin. Existing users can still log in, it is just that my
: administration privileges are nil.
:
: I also looked through the man pages, but couldn't find anything useful.
:
: Can I somehow clear or reset the admin password? If I need to reinstall
: is there a way I can preserve all existing users?
If you mean the Master Database Password (or what ever it is called) then
No, that is a password which the system directly depends on. (I believe
the database is encrypted with that password, but I am not possitive.)
If you mean the password that you used to get your
alten.admin@TELECHECK.COM, then you can go to the Master Kerberos server
and reset your admin password by hand, but you will need the Master
Database Password.
: Any help appreciated.
Hope this does help.
: P.S. Any additional information or pointers to KerberosIV related material
: will really help.
Cygnus has some docs that are somewhat useful. I found I learned a great
deal by setting up an experimental kerberos server.
Wes
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