diff --git a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/requirements.txt b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/requirements.txt
index 9a950aa4e2..b56655cad1 100644
--- a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/requirements.txt
+++ b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 docker-compose
-minikerberos
+# Pinned minikerberos because the current implementation is not compatible with 0.3.0+
+# https://github.com/vmware/versatile-data-kit/issues/1169
+minikerberos==0.2.20
 pytest
 pytest-docker
 requests-kerberos
diff --git a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/setup.py b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/setup.py
index 0a52baebe9..fe7b4aab22 100644
--- a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/setup.py
+++ b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@
     description="Versatile Data Kit SDK plugin adds Kerberos/GSSAPI support.",
     long_description=pathlib.Path("README.md").read_text(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    install_requires=["vdk-core", "minikerberos", "requests-kerberos", "pykerberos"],
+    install_requires=[
+        "vdk-core",
+        "minikerberos==0.2.20",
+        "requests-kerberos",
+        "pykerberos",
+    ],
     package_dir={"": "src"},
     packages=setuptools.find_namespace_packages(where="src"),
     entry_points={
diff --git a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/tests/test_kerberos.py b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/tests/test_kerberos.py
index 32b6f83a99..52cbeef691 100644
--- a/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/tests/test_kerberos.py
+++ b/projects/vdk-plugins/vdk-kerberos-auth/tests/test_kerberos.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def test_invalid_authentication_mode(self):
                 ["run", jobs_path_from_caller_directory("test-job")]
             )
 
-            assert "VDK_KRB_AUTH has invalid value" in result.output
+            assert "VDK_KRB_AUTH has invalid value" in str(result.exception)
             cli_assert_equal(1, result)
 
     def test_kinit_authentication(self):
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ def test_kinit_authentication_with_wrong_credentials(self):
         ):
             result: Result = self.__runner.invoke(["run", data_job_path])
 
-            assert "kinit returned exitcode 1" in result.output
+            assert "kinit returned exitcode 1" in str(result.exception)
             cli_assert_equal(1, result)
 
     def test_kinit_authentication_error_fail_fast_is_false(self):
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ def test_kinit_authentication_with_missing_keytab(self):
         ):
             result: Result = self.__runner.invoke(["run", data_job_path])
 
-            assert "Cannot locate keytab file" in result.output
+            assert "Cannot locate keytab file" in str(result.exception)
             cli_assert_equal(1, result)
 
     def test_minikerberos_authentication(self):
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ def test_minikerberos_authentication_with_wrong_credentials(self):
         ):
             result: Result = self.__runner.invoke(["run", data_job_path])
 
-            assert "Client not found in Kerberos database" in result.output
+            assert "Client not found in Kerberos database" in str(result.exception)
             cli_assert_equal(1, result)
 
     def test_minikerberos_authentication_with_missing_keytab(self):
@@ -255,5 +255,5 @@ def test_minikerberos_authentication_with_missing_keytab(self):
         ):
             result: Result = self.__runner.invoke(["run", data_job_path])
 
-            assert "Cannot locate keytab file" in result.output
+            assert "Cannot locate keytab file" in str(result.exception)
             cli_assert_equal(1, result)