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Re: Can kinit but not kvno

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilbertson)
Thu Apr 17 11:00:14 2008

From: John Gilbertson <jgilbert@liv.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:57:28 +0100
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Douglas E. Engert wrote:

> kvno is requesting a service ticket. But user accounts in AD don't
> normally have a servicePrincipalName attribute.
> 
> kvno should work for actual service principals like:
> 
>     kvno host/livad.liv.ac.uk
> 
> Why do you need to use kvno with a user account?
> 
> If you need to know the kvno for the user, you can use ldap or  ADSI Edit
> and search for the user and read the msDS-KeyVersionNumber attribute.
> 
> You might be able to add a servicePrincipalName to the user account if
> you really need to get a service ticket for the user.

Ah that does explain it all thankyou.

I was just testing to make sure everything was working before bothering 
our AD team to set up a service principal for a test service. I didn't 
know if I had got the initial setup right or not.

-- 
John Gilbertson
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