Thanks for that Jakub.

Following a review of the output I've found that this is simply a known conflict with OTP:

https://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/OTP#kinit_Method


On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:20 AM Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:10:39AM +0000, Callum Guy via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> Hi Jakub,
>
> Apologies for hijacking the thread but you reminded me of a longstanding
> issue - I can't manually use kinit on my client nodes. As I operate a jump
> server that means I get a ticket on first login but when i login to other
> client systems the ticket gives me entry but doesn't follow me. When I try
> to run kinit for my user the following message is printed:
>
> $ kinit callum
> kinit: Generic preauthentication failure while getting initial credentials
>
> Not a single local log entry is generated. Any ideas?

kinit doesn't generate logs unless you set the KRB5_TRACE variable, e.g.
    KRB5_TRACE=/dev/stderr kinit callum
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