krb5-sync-backend command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

krb5-sync-backend: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: krb5-sync-backend: command not found

Solutions to krb5-sync-backend: command not found

How To Fix krb5-sync-backend: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu krb5-sync-backend is provided by krb5-sync-tools package.

krb5-sync-tools is:

Provides tools to enable, disable, and set the password of an account in a Windows Active Directory using the same configuration used by the krb5-sync-plugin package. These supporting tools are normally used to handle queued changes created by the plugin that failed due to a temporary error, but can be used on their own.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install krb5-sync-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install krb5-sync-tools.

sudo apt -y install krb5-sync-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install krb5-sync-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix krb5-sync-backend command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.