Apache HTTPD Kerberos authentication fails with error "ticket is likely out of date"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kerberos authentication fails when attempting to access a website hosted via Apache HTTPD.

  • The following error is recorded in the HTTPD error logs:

    GSS ERROR In Negotiate Auth: gss_accept_sec_context() failed: [Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information (Request ticket server HTTP/principal.domain.com@DOMAIN.COM kvno 9 not found in keytab; ticket is likely out of date

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Apache HTTP Server (HTTPD)
    • mod_authnz_ldap
    • mod_authnz_gssapi

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