--- title: "Fedora 14 Kerberos Error Message" id: "1651" type: "post" slug: "fedora-14-kerberos-error-message" published_at: "2010-10-25T14:57:43+00:00" modified_at: "2014-04-12T20:30:40+00:00" url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-kerberos-error-message/" markdown_url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-kerberos-error-message.md" excerpt: "If you use kerberos for authentication and you’ve recently moved to Fedora 14, you may encounter this error while requesting a ticket with kinit: kinit: KDC has no support for encryption type while getting initial credentials The bug report suggests......" taxonomy_category: - "Software & Technology" taxonomy_post_tag: - "error" - "Fedora" - "fedora 14" - "kerberos" - "krb" --- [Skip to the content](#site-content) [John Poelstra](https://johnpoelstra.com) ### Bringing order to chaos and clarity to confusion - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) Toggle search field - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) # [Fedora 14 Kerberos Error Message](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-kerberos-error-message/) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogmuseum2/3038920703/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogmuseum2/3038920703/) If you use kerberos for authentication and you’ve recently moved to [Fedora](http://fedoraproject.org) 14, you may encounter this error while requesting a ticket with `kinit`: ``` kinit: KDC has no support for encryption type while getting initial credentials ``` The [bug report](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573968) suggests the following workaround (which worked for me): > As a temporary workaround, systems which need to continue to use the weaker ciphers can be configured with “allow_weak_crypto = yes” in the [libdefaults] section of their respective /etc/krb5.conf files. #### John Poelstra John Poelstra coaches directors in finance and software. 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[Author archive](https://johnpoelstra.com/author/john-poelstra/) [Author website](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-john-poelstra-show/id1130635146) October 25, 2010 [Software & Technology](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/software/) [error](https://johnpoelstra.com/tag/error/) , [Fedora](https://johnpoelstra.com/tag/fedora/) , [fedora 14](https://johnpoelstra.com/tag/fedora-14/) , [kerberos](https://johnpoelstra.com/tag/kerberos/) , [krb](https://johnpoelstra.com/tag/krb/) [Previous post](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-nears-the-finish-line/) [Next post](https://johnpoelstra.com/five-mortgage-lessons/) ## 5 Comments ## [Add yours](#respond) 1. lclaudio[November 4, 2010 at 7:10 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-kerberos-error-message/#comment-361) [Reply](#comment-361) Another solution (that IIRC I saw in that BZ too) is to change your password. It worked fine for me, without the need of enabling weak crypto. [Reply](#comment-361) 2. Saikat[October 28, 2010 at 2:01 pm](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-kerberos-error-message/#comment-360) [Reply](#comment-360) Thanks a lot for the tip… [Reply](#comment-360) 3. Marek Mahut[October 27, 2010 at 6:01 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-kerberos-error-message/#comment-358) [Reply](#comment-358) I hate to see usage of weak crypto with kerberos. Just rekey your principal with correct encryption and you should be fine! [Reply](#comment-358) - [John Poelstra](http://johnpoelstra.com/) [October 27, 2010 at 6:30 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-kerberos-error-message/#comment-359) [Reply](#comment-359) Yes, but what do you do when you have no control of the principal? [Reply](#comment-359) - [Pete Zaitcev](http://ani-nouto.animeblogger.net/) [November 18, 2010 at 7:10 am](https://johnpoelstra.com/fedora-14-kerberos-error-message/#comment-362) [Reply](#comment-362) Apparently you just go to shell.devel.redhat.com and type kpasswd, type your password 3 times, voila. 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