Cluster ccs_sync tool is not able to authenticate to ricci daemon

Issue

• When running ccs_sync we am prompted for a password despite having already entered the correct one. The synchronization fails as a result.

You have not authenticated to the ricci daemon on cluster-node1.example.com
Password: 
You have not authenticated to the ricci daemon on cluster-node2.example.com
Password: 

• When we try to propagate a new version of the configuration file to all cluster nodes it fails.

# cman_tool version -r -d32
Getting config variables
Validating configuration
calling '/usr/sbin/ccs_config_validate   -R 194'
Configuration validates
calling ccs_sync
You have not authenticated to the ricci daemon on cluster-node1.example.com
Password: 
You have not authenticated to the ricci daemon on cluster-node2.example.com
Password: 
The connection to cluster-node1.example.com died unexpectedly
The connection to cluster-node2.example.com died unexpectedly
cman_tool: ccs_sync failed.
If you have distributed the config file yourself, try re-running with -S