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Re: kinit: Time is out of bounds error

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Kan)
Sun Apr 21 05:25:35 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 20 Apr 1996 23:00:53 GMT
From: genehkan@monitor.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Gene Kan)

>I have a network composed of Sun Sparcs running solaris 2.4 and some P5s 
>running BSDI 2.0 and 2.1. When I try a kinit -i from some certain sparcs,
>I get a "kinit: Time is out of bounds (krb_rd_req)" error while on some it 

Make your clients run netdate against the kerberos server.  This is arguably
not as Entirely Safe as running xntpd, but xntpd is also unnecessary in
most cases.

Kerberos is a time sensitive thing...it barfs, say, if you haven't switched
your computer over to the current time thing (Daylight Savings, is it?).

-- 
Gene
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* Yellow, because ice cream has no bones.
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