AD accounts are failing to login on RHEL via winbind with an error "Clock skew too great in KDC reply"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • AD accounts are failing to login on RHEL via winbind with an error below:
Apr  4 02:30:50 rhel6u10 winbindd[1234]: [2024/04/04 02:30:50.249425,  0] libads/sasl.c:939(ads_sasl_spnego_bind)
Apr  4 02:30:50 rhel6u10 winbindd[1234]:   kinit succeeded but ads_sasl_spnego_krb5_bind failed: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information : Clock skew too great in KDC reply
  • net ads join command is failing with clock skew error:
kinit succeeded but ads_sasl_spnego_krb5_bind failed: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information : Clock skew too great in KDC reply

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • samba/winbind

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