[17656] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.26: passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Tue Mar 14 16:30:03 2000
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To: Joycelyn N Gathers <nikki@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:58:10 EST."
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:29:47 -0500
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> What's wrong:
> [I got this message after entering my old password:
> Kerberos error: Retry count exceeded (send_to_kdc).]
The master kerberos server was down for a period of time; during that
time, changing passwords would not have been possible. The fact that
the error message isn't very clear is now known, and hopefully this
will be corrected in the future.
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>