On SAP 7.1+ running on HPUX 11.31 ia64 with Authentication Services 4.1, SAP fails to startup
Attempt to start up the SAP server and it appears to get stuck while trying to accept the intial creds as shown in the dev_w0 logs below:
N SncInit(): Initializing Secure Network Communication (SNC)
N HP (IA-64) with HP-UX (mt,ascii,SAP_UC/size_t/void* = 16/64/64)
N UserId="hcdadm" (3222), envvar USER=""
N SncInit(): found snc/data_protection/max=3, using 3 (Privacy Level)
N SncInit(): found snc/data_protection/min=1, using 1 (Authentication Level)
N SncInit(): found snc/data_protection/use=3, using 3 (Privacy Level)
N SncInit(): found snc/gssapi_lib=/opt/quest/lib/hpux64/libvas-gssapi.so
M Mon Nov 17 18:21:52 2014
M DlLoadLib() success: dlopen("/opt/quest/lib/hpux64/libvas-gssapi.so"), hdl 1, count 1, addr 9fffffffbe9a7a48
N File "/opt/quest/lib/hpux64/libvas-gssapi.so" dynamically loaded as GSS-API v2 library.
N The internal Adapter for the loaded GSS-API mechanism identifies as:
N Internal SNC-Adapter (Rev 1.0) to Kerberos 5/GSS-API v2
N SncInit(): found snc/identity/as=p:sapadmin$@.DOMAIN.COM
N SncInit(): Accepting Credentials available, lifetime=Indefinite