CIFS password change fails silently leading to secd: secd.kerberos.preauth:error after Microsoft April 2022 Hotfixes
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- CIFS
- Active Directory
- CVE-2021-42287
Issue
- When the
vserver cifs domain password scheduleis enabled, it silently fails. - Event logs indicates below error
Sat Apr 16 03:00:00 +0800 [cluster1-01: secd: secd.kerberos.preauth:error]: Kerberos pre-authentication failure due to out-of-sync machine account password for vserver (svm1).
- CIFS client access fails with
secd.logerrorKRB5KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED - The following commands fail as well:
vserver cifs domain password changevserver cifs domain password schedulevserver cifs security modify -is-aes-encryption-enabled
