On 24 Sep 2010, at 18:59, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> Best practice is to *NOT* use the system default keytab file.  Use a 
> service-specific one.  Most services should support configuring the location 
> of that keytab file.  

Right, that makes a lot of sense.

> If there's nothing specific to the app, then the SASL libraries have a config 
> item you can put in the app's SASL config file:
> 
> keytab: <</path/to/keytab>>
> 
> (Of course you'll still need to find where its SASL config file is, which may 
> require resorting to dtrace.)  

I will need to add code to the servers to configure a different keytab.

> Failing that, you still have an option in GSSAPI and the Kerberos libraries 
> to set the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME.  Set it to the path to the 
> keytab file.
> 
> Since this is a Sun list, I can point you at 
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4557/sasl-1?a=view for more detail on 
> SASL.

I'm using our own build of the CMU libsasl2 library and plugins. I'm not sure 
how our version differs from Sun's, but some of of the options look kind of 
familiar :-)

Thanks for the hints!

Cheers,

Chris
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