OAM11R2: During WNA Setup Kinit Returns Error : krb_error 6 Client not found in Kerberos database (Doc ID 1523575.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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Goal

On Windows 2008R2 with the command

 
>java.exe -Dsun.security.krb5.debug=true sun.security.krb5.internal.tools.Kinit -k -t <PATH>keytab.service HTTP/<FQDN_HOSTNAME>@<AD_DOMAIN_NAME>

>kinit<FQDN_HOSTNAME>@<AD_DOMAIN_NAME>
Password for HTTP/<FQDN_HOSTNAME>@<AD_DOMAIN_NAME> :
Exception: krb_error 6 Client not found in Kerberos database (6) Client not found in Kerberos database

 ( both commands are doing the same)

bring the error information : "Client not found in Kerberos database" - How to fix this?

Detailed error information:
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>>> reading response from kdc
>>> KDCRep: init() encoding tag is 126 req type is 11                                   <- connection to Active Directory are be established
>>>KRBError:
  sTime is Tue Jan 22 15:19:55 CET 2013 1358864395000
  suSec is 983203
  error code is 6
  error Message is Client not found in Kerberos database                                <-  messages are being sent from the Active Directory
  realm is<AD_DOMAIN_NAME>
  sname is krbtgt/E<AD_DOMAIN_NAME>
  msgType is 30
Exception: krb_error 6 Client not found in Kerberos database (6) Client not found in Kerberos database
KrbException: Client not found in Kerberos database (6)
  at sun.security.krb5.KrbAsRep.(KrbAsRep.java:66)
  at sun.security.krb5.KrbAsReq.getReply(KrbAsReq.java:448)
  at sun.security.krb5.internal.tools.Kinit.sendASRequest(Kinit.java:306)
  at sun.security.krb5.internal.tools.Kinit.(Kinit.java:237)
  at sun.security.krb5.internal.tools.Kinit.main(Kinit.java:107)
Caused by: KrbException: Identifier doesn't match expected value (906)
  at sun.security.krb5.internal.KDCRep.init(KDCRep.java:133)
  at sun.security.krb5.internal.ASRep.init(ASRep.java:58)
  at sun.security.krb5.internal.ASRep.(ASRep.java:53)
  at sun.security.krb5.KrbAsRep.(KrbAsRep.java:50)
  ... 4 more
 

Solution

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