I would be eternally gratefully to anybody that can shed some light on this problem.
Background: I’m running an Xserve G5 with Leopard Server: OD Master, DNS, VPN, AFP, FTP.
About once a month any attempt to authenticate to the server in any way fails. It usually begins when a user complains that they get a “kdc policy rejects request” message when trying to connect to an AFP share. So Kerberos isn’t allowing them to log in. Next the VPN service begins rejecting requests from users, saying their authentication attempt failed.
I can even try to connect to the LDAP with WGM using the directory admin account, and it tells me authentication failed. So in other words, all password authentication stops working.
When this happens, Server Admin tells me Password Server is Running, but I’m not sure I belive this is true.
I’ve also noticed that this error appears in the ApplePasswordServer.Error.log file: Nov 13 2011 14:39:54 Registration is finished error: (10, -72000).
The only way I’ve been able to resolve this is to reboot the server…
So, Does anybody agree with me that it looks like PasswordServer is crapping out and stopping, even Server Admin says it’s running?
What might cause something like this to happen, how might I go about debugging and trying to fix it? I would be so grateful for any help in dealing with this…
Jonathan
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