Hello There! I'm trying to configure a Red Hat AS 4 to authenticate via Kerberos on my Windows 2003 Active Diretory . The solution is very simple, the users are going to be created on the Linux machine (/etc/passwd) and only the password is goingt to be read from the Active Directory . I have configured the AD and the Windows machines can logon normally into it . My Linux configuration is based on the kerberos configuration file /etc/krb5.conf, that follows: [administrator@linux ~]$ cat /etc/krb5.conf [logging] default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log [libdefaults] # clockskew = 300 default_realm = CACDOMAIN.BR.IBM.COM dns_lookup_realm = false dns_lookup_kdc = false [realms] CACDOMAIN.BR.IBM.COM = { kdc = win2k3-vm.cacdomain.br.ibm.com:88 # admin_server = kerberos.example.com:749 default_domain = CACDOMAIN.BR.IBM.COM } [domain_realm] .CACDOMAIN.BR.IBM.COM = CACDOMAIN.BR.IBM.COM # example.com = EXAMPLE.COM [kdc] profile = /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf [appdefaults] pam = { debug = false ticket_lifetime = 36000 renew_lifetime = 36000 forwardable = true krb4_convert = false } . I'm using the command "#kinit username" to check if my configuration is correct before changing the pam files to define that the linux is going to search for the password at the Active Directory . I could check that the password is being read from the active directory, because I have created an user at /etc/passwd named administrator (the same username exists on the AD) and when I type a wrong password it returns an error reporting that the password is wrong and if I try to use an user that doesn't exists in the AD, it reports it too . The problem happens when I try to use the correct username/password that really exists at the Active Directory, so I receive the following error message: [administrator@linux ~]$ kinit Password for administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: kinit(v5): Clock skew too great while getting initial credentials . Reading some reports of the same error at the Internet, I could check that it means that my AD Server clock has a different time comparing to my linux kerberos client . I have checked the time on both machines and it's not so different (just some seconds of difference): - On Windows C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>time The current time is: 14:53:22.29 Enter the new time - On Linux [administrator@linux ~]$ date Wed Jul 12 14:53:53 BRT 2006 . Do you have any idea about the problem that can cause this error message to occur? Best Regards, Fabio Martins -- Fábio Augusto Miranda Martins E-mail: fabiomirmar@xxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list