Thanks Brandon for your response. Actually, My use-case is that I have a web application that authenticates a user. Then user calls my backend services written in java to interact with hadoop cluster. My hadoop cluster is kerberos-enabled. I need to authenticate this user using my java code. I am able to login using keytab files, but i did not get someway to login using password. For logging in using keytab files, we need to place keytab files for all the system users on all the hosts from where we can access our hadoop cluster. So this is the main drawback. And as you say logging using keytab files is not appropriate then how can we achieve this objective?
Thanks On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Brandon Allbery <ballb...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > You are going to have to describe what you are trying to do in more > detail. Keytabs are not normally used for this purpose, except in the case > of automated procedures (e.g. cron) that need to log in to a service as if > they are a user. Perhaps you have confused keytabs (“passwords” on disk) > with ccaches (ephemeral service credentials, which may or may not be on > disk and typically expire in a relatively short time)? > > On 7/17/16, 16:04, "kerberos-boun...@mit.edu on behalf of Aneela Saleem" < > kerberos-boun...@mit.edu on behalf of ane...@platalytics.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > If a user logs into any kerberized Application, using Krb5LoginModule, > there is a function loginFromKeyTab. Client should have the key tab > file to > login to application. But I think this is very insecure way of login. > Anyone who cloud access your key tab file then login to application. Is > there any appropriate way to login to system. I don't understand How > to do > this. I'm stuck > > Thanks > ________________________________________________ > Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu > https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos > > > ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos