I'm seeing a segfault when I run: kdb5_ldap_util -P test123 -D "cn=Manager,dc=zone,dc=net" -w test123 create -r ZONE.NET -s Core was generated by `kdb5_ldap_util -P test123 -D cn=Manager,dc=zone,dc=net -w test123 create -r ZON'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0xfeef873d in krb5_dbekd_encrypt_key_data (kcontext=0x80876c8, mkey=0x80479e0, dbkey=0x809ac1c, keysalt=0x0, keyver=1, key_data=0x8098940) at ../../../migrate_bugfix/src/lib/kdb/kdb5.c:3052 3052 status = (gdb) where #0 0xfeef873d in krb5_dbekd_encrypt_key_data (kcontext=0x80876c8, mkey=0x80479e0, dbkey=0x809ac1c, keysalt=0x0, keyver=1, key_data=0x8098940) at ../../../migrate_bugfix/src/lib/kdb/kdb5.c:3052 #1 0x08057b40 in kdb_ldap_create_principal (context=0x80876c8, princ=0x8099cc0, op=MASTER_KEY, pblock=0x806ec1c) at ../../../../../migrate_bugfix/src/plugins/kdb/ldap/ldap_util/kdb5_ldap_realm.c:2503 #2 0x08055ddc in kdb5_ldap_create (argc=2, argv=0x809df88) at ../../../../../migrate_bugfix/src/plugins/kdb/ldap/ldap_util/kdb5_ldap_realm.c:700 #3 0x08054248 in main (argc=0, argv=0x8047b00) at ../../../../../migrate_bugfix/src/plugins/kdb/ldap/ldap_util/kdb5_ldap_util.c:614 052 status = 3053 dal_handle->lib_handle->vftabl.dbekd_encrypt_key_data(kcontext, 3054 mkey, dbkey, keysalt, keyver, key_data); print dal_handle->lib_handle $1 = 0x0 In src/plugins/kdb/ldap/ldap_util/kdb5_ldap_util.c:main() there is this to initialize dal_handle: /* Setup DAL handle to access the database */ dal_handle = calloc((size_t)1, sizeof(kdb5_dal_handle)); if (dal_handle == NULL) { goto cleanup; } dal_handle->db_context = ldap_context; util_context->dal_handle = dal_handle; ldap_context = NULL; db_retval = krb5_ldap_read_server_params(util_context, conf_section, KRB5_KDB_SRV_TYPE_OTHER); if (db_retval) { com_err(progname, db_retval, "while reading ldap configuration"); exit_status++; goto cleanup; } if (cmd->opendb) { db_retval = krb5_ldap_db_init(util_context, (krb5_ldap_context *)dal_handle->db_context); if (db_retval) { com_err(progname, db_retval, "while initializing database"); exit_status++; goto cleanup; } db_inited = TRUE; } (*cmd->func)(cmd_argc, cmd_argv); Note that dal_handle->lib_handle isn't being initialized. krb5_dbekd_encrypt_key_data() used to be in lib/krb5/kdb/encrypt_key.c and did not call dal_handle->lib_handle->vftabl.dbekd_encrypt_key_data(). Now krb5_dbekd_encrypt_key_data() is in src/lib/kdb/kdb5.c and is calling dal_handle->lib_handle->vftabl.dbekd_encrypt_key_data(). I think this was introduced by ticket 6313.