Petr Grolmus <[email protected]> writes:

>       As we tried it, it works great for expiring password and password
> change. But, now we have another problem. When the master_kdc is set and
> user use a wrong password the kerberos protocol (kinit) returns

> Generic preauthentication failure while getting initial credentials

> instead of

> Password incorrect while getting initial credentials (without master_kdc
> option)

> and WebAuth generates "Unrecovarable error occured" instead of new login
> form. Is this in connection with your bug report
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670457 and probably will
> help upgrade of KRB libraries (and/or KRB servers??) or can we managed it
> somewhere in configuration or code of WebKDC? We have installed libkrb5 in
> version 1.10+dfsg~beta1-2.

Ah, yes, indeed, this is exactly that problem.  I should have realized
that the master_kdc retry would have that same problem.  Unfortunately,
the bug is internal to the Kerberos libraries and very difficult to work
around in application code.

> Yes, you are right... I expected a redirect to that URL before form
> shows, not after the form submmit. It works fine.

Oh, cool, okay.

-- 
Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
Technical Lead, ITS Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University

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