On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Joe Laffey wrote:

> All of a sudden whenever I try to change a passwd using passwd I get the
> following error, even though I enter the corrent passwd.:
> 
> Old password for user:
> passwd: Kerberos error: Retry count exceeded (send_to_kdc)
> 
> Any ideas what would cause this?

You installed the security set w/o configuring kerberos (or your kerberos
got messed up). passwd's trying to change the kerberos password for you.

If you're trying to change the local password, use "passwd -l". I use it
as I have kerberos on most of my machines even though I have local
passwords.

Take care,

Bill