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25 points

Password problem after migrating to Mountain Lion Server

Hello everyone,

Yesterday, I migrated our Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server. Everything seemed to work fine. Except since this morning, none of the network user cannot connect to their calendar, reminders, and wiki. They can connect to their account and to their mails. The following line appears multiple times in ApplePasswordServer.Error.log:

Aug 16 2012 16:52:50 700250us client response doesn't match what we generated

It seems that only web services are concerned (vpn, mobile accounts, and mails are working). My initial guess is that the hash computed on the basis of the user password is not computed on the same way on the client machine (which is running Mountain Lion by the way) and on the server. On the other hand, this would be very surprising, since all this stuff is based on standards and unlikely to have changed since Lion.

I tried to create a new "Test" user. Even this new user, created after the migration, cannot connect to its calendar, etc. I also tried to reset my user password using the Server App. It makes no difference, the same lines appear in the logs.

Is anyone experiencing a similar problem ? Does anyone have a clue of what to try next ?

Thanks a lot !

OS X Server, Mountain Lion Server

Posted on Aug 16, 2012 8:14 AM

17 replies

felddy

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11 points

Sep 19, 2012 11:57 AM in response to mbresink

mbresink,

Awesome. Enabling APOP with the Directory Utilitiy, and changing the passwords of the affected users has fixed all the login issues I was having since migration.

Thanks for taking the time to post a very understandable fix.

Cheers,

Mark

elgringito Author

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25 points

Sep 19, 2012 1:16 PM in response to mbresink

I cannot try your solution anymore. I simply did a fresh install a few days ago. It did took me a lot of time, since I had to

- import the OD user accounts (this was quick)

- associates their maildirs (quick)

- import the wikis (quick, using Apple docs)

- import the user calendars (by hand, a nightmare)

In the process, I simply lost the wiki calendars. This was not too much of an issue in my case but this clearly might not be acceptable in common situations.

I would have loved to learn about your solution before ;-) too bad. Well done mbresink, you have done quite an amazing work here !

Password problem after migrating to Mountain Lion Server