Configuration Guide for Kerberos Client Products on HP-UX

Troubleshooting Kerberos Related Products
Troubleshooting the Kerberos Client Utilities
Chapter 494
Troubleshooting the Kerberos Client Utilities
Kerberos utilities, kdestroy, kinit, klist, and kpasswd can return
the following errors. Table 4-2 provides a list of errors with their
meaning and suggested corrective actions for each error.
Table 4-2 Kerberos Client Error Codes
Error
No.
Error Meaning
Reason/Corrective
Action
1 kdestroy: No credentials
cache file found while
destroying cache. Ticket
cache not destroyed!
The credentials cache file
was not found.
The credential file may
have been deleted.
Recreate the credentials
(TGT) using kinit.
2 kinit: Key table entry
not found while getting
initial credentials.
The local keytab file does
not contain the key for
the principal whose
credentials are being
requested.
Add the principal key
entry to the keytab file.
3 kinit: Client not found
in Kerberos database
while getting initial
credentials.
The principal whose
credentials are being
requested does not exist
in the Kerberos database.
Verify that there is a
principal entry
available for the client
in the Kerberos
database. If there is no
entry, you must create
it.
4 klist: No credentials
cache file found
No credentials cache file
was found.
This could be due to the
deletion of credentials.
Recreate the credentials
using kinit or if the
credential file is
different from the one
indicated by klist;
then export the
KRB5CCNAME
environment variable to
specify the correct
filename.