Friday, July 8, 2011

Fix For: Unable to add the domain - An Unexpected Error of type - 14090 (eDSAuthFailed) occurred

Error Message:
Unable to add the domain - An Unexpected Error of type - 14090 (eDSAuthFailed) occurred.

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Platforms:
Mac OS X 10.6.x 
Mac OS X 10.5.x  

Scenario: 
Active Directory account credentials were not recognized by the machine. Directory users were unable to log in to the machine using their network log in credentials. Local OS X accounts works fine. trying to unbind the machine from the Active Directory may fail and require us to do a force unbind.  Then, when we go and try to rebind the machines to the directory , above mentioned message will appear.

Reason:
File "Kerberos:EXAMPLE.COM.AU.plist" located in /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/ may be corrupted or invalid. 

Sample content of the file /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/Kerberos:EXAMPLE.COM.AU.plist is shown below

Use the Terminal command:
sudo cat  /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/Kerberos:EXAMPLE.COM.AU.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>OSBuild</key>
<string>9L31a</string>
<key>appDurations</key>
<dict>
<key>["com.Adobe.ESD.AdobeUpdaterApplication"] [6.2.0.1474] [Adobe Updater 6.2.0.1474]</key>
<integer>81839</integer>
<key>[Microsoft/com.microsoft.AlertsDaemon] [12.2.5] [12.2.5]</key>
<integer>87438</integer>
<key>[Microsoft/com.microsoft.AlertsDaemon] [12.2.6] [12.2.6]</key>
<integer>158664</integer>
<key>[Microsoft/com.microsoft.AlertsDaemon] [12.2.7] [12.2.7]</key>
<integer>37661</integer>
<key>[com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro] [9.0.0] [9.0.0]</key>
<integer>137839</integer>
<key>[com.adobe.Installers.Setup] [2.1.51.0] [COMPUTER_NAME:nodes] 

Solution: 
Remove the Kerberos:EXAMPLE.COM.AU.plist file and attempt to bind the machine to the domain again.

Use the terminal command:
sudo rm /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/Kerberos:EXAMPLE.COM.AU.plist

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