While joining RHEL system to Windows Active Directory net ads command fails with "Malformed representation of principal" error.

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Issue

  • While joining RHEL system to Windows Active Directory net ads command fails with following error.
root@cdc1mdattst1:/etc #net ads join -U klleffler@NA.GLOBAL.QWINC.COM 
Enter klleffler@NA.GLOBAL.QWINC.COM's password: 
[2010/09/09 14:40:26,  0] libads/kerberos.c:ads_kinit_password(362) 
  kerberos_kinit_password klleffler@NA.GLOBAL.QWINC.COM@NA.GLOBAL.QWINC.COM failed: Malformed representation of principal 
Failed to join domain: failed to connect to AD: Malformed representation of principal

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • samba-3.0.33
  • winbind
  • kerberos

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