realm join command fails with the error "realm: Couldn't join realm: Extracting host keytab failed"

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Issue

  • realm join command fails with the error:
realm: Couldn't join realm: Extracting host keytab failed
  • realm join --user='DOMAIN\aduser' --computer-ou='OU=Servers,DC=domain,DC=com' domain.com fails with error and journalctl shows:
Nov 10 14:00:38 de-jump01 realmd[15574]: Enter DOMAIN\aduser's password:kerberos_kinit_password DOMAIN\aduser@DOMAIN.COM failed: Client not found in Kerberos database  <----
Nov 10 14:00:39 de-jump01 realmd[15574]: kerberos_kinit_password DOMAIN\aduser@DOMAIN.COM failed: Client not found in Kerberos database <----

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • realm

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