Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to drop in a quick comment. We were wondering how to perform
> Kerberos5 and/or OpenAFS authentication without typing in user
> passwords.
>
> The solution is to create a keytab file (with the user's key), which
> the service will then use to authenticate.
>
> For example, to run "kadmin" with root/admin credentials and without
> typing the password, you can do
>
>  kadmin -k -p root/admin
>
> (-k implies you want to use /etc/krb5.keytab to get the data from).
> This only works if the key for root/admin is actually found in the
> keytab file and you can read the keytab file (mode 0600 by default).

You can also use a krb5cc directly (assuming you have credentials 
through some other process, this might be more useful.)

kadmin -c $KRB5CCNAME

> Since we want to run the daemons this way, it is better to use
> k5start/krenew instead of kinit; those commands take care of both
> ticket renewal and AFS tokens. (Thanks to Cristopher Clausen for
> the hint). I've compiled the package from source, from Debian testing.

Christopher has another "h" in it, but otherwise thanks for the credit.

<<CDC
-- 
Christopher D. Clausen 


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