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I installed freeipa on centos7 - the installation did not throw any errors nor could I find anything unusual in the ipa install log file. However, when I run the kinit command post installation, I get the following response:

kinit admin

kinit: Generic error (see e-text) while getting initial credentials
Any thoughts on how to go about troubleshooting this?
Edit:
In the /var/log/krb5kdc.log file, I see the following entry:
preauth pkinit failed to initialize: PKINIT initialization failed: Cannot read cert
ificate file '/var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.crt': No such file or directory
                If you are not using a smartcard in this case I wouldn't focus on the pkinit error.  I would instead focus on the kinit problem and to start off, I would ask to see your /etc/krb5.conf file - its a fairly small file.   krb5.conf is a complement to DNS in that it allows the system to see where the important Kerberos resources are on the network.
– T-Heron
                Jun 18, 2018 at 11:01
        
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