SSSD service is failing with an error 'Failed to initialize credentials using keytab [MEMORY:/etc/krb5.keytab]: Preauthentication failed.'
Issue
SSSD
service is failing.- RHEL system is configured as an AD client using
SSSD
and AD users are unable to login to the system. /var/log/messages
file is filled up with following repeated logs.
Mar 13 08:36:18 testserver [sssd[ldap_child[145919]]]: Failed to initialize credentials using keytab [MEMORY:/etc/krb5.keytab]: Preauthentication failed. Unable to create GSSAPI-encrypted LDAP connection.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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