ipa-client-install fails with error "* gss_init_sec_context() failed : : KDC policy rejects request".

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Issue

IPA-Client installation fails with below error

* upload completely sent off: 479 out of 479 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
< Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:59:42 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) mod_auth_gssapi/1.4.0 mod_nss/1.0.14 NSS/3.21 Basic ECC mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.5
* gss_init_sec_context() failed: : KDC policy rejects request       
< WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
< X-Frame-Options: DENY
< Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'none'
< Last-Modified: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:33:11 GMT
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 1474
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< 
* Connection #0 to host ipa1.example.com left intact
HTTP response code is 401, not 200

2017-04-04T19:59:42Z ERROR Joining realm failed: XML-RPC CALL:

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • ipa-client-4.4.0-14.el7_3.1.1.x86_64
  • IPA 4.4.0

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