Kerberos is a network authentication system based on shared key cryptography. It is the underlying authentication system used by current versions of Active Directory and is widely used by large organizations.

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What is the kerberos keytab file used for in UNIX/AD kerberos authentication?

I have proved that UNIX/AD Kerberos authentication works without the presence of a keytab file so I'd like to know whether I should worry about it (given I'll need an individual keytab for each server ...
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Keep kerberos ticket across sudo invocation

On a regular linux machine, when I use sudo -s as a normal user, I become root but HOME still points to ~user, so every admin has his own environment etc. (this is without env_reset or always_set_home ...
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How to authenticate against AD aliases with Kerberos on linux? [closed]

I have to set up a samba share with authentication against AD, for a customer. The network have some weirds settings. There is one domain. Bu almost all users have an alias. so instead of ...
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Need help configuring Fedora client authentication for 389 server with Kerberos

Trying to setup kerberos authentication with 389-ds and having trouble figuring out how the two fit together. Here is my setup: A CentOS 6 VM (centos01) where I setup bind, 389 ds, and kdc services ...
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Multiple PCs network centralized system authentication

(I couldn't really choose an accurate title as I don't know exactly what the feature I'm looking for is called. Sorry about that. I hope that the following lines may clear this aspect.) I own a dozen ...
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Command-line web browser with Kerberos authentication?

QUESTION: Is there a Kerberos-friendly web browser usable via an SSH console? I have tried links but it does not seem to work with Kerberos (the webapp asks me for login/password even though I have a ...
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Public Key Auth + Kerberos

I've setup public key authentication for ssh'ing into my university machine. However, it only logs me in on the local machine and doesn't give me Kerberos credentials which I need for accessing my ...
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PostgreSQL on FreeBSD - 'Kerberos 5 authentication not supported'

I've been trying to get a FreeBSD machine to talk to a networked postgreSQL database. I assumed that the machine had kerberos installed, as it's what I use to log in, and I was told that FreeBSD has ...
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Java could not get the TGT from cache in Linux client

I have set up a Kerberos server and OpenLDAP in RHEL5.5. I also have a RHEL6 machine as a client. I have run my Java program using jaas to query the OpenLDAP server from the linux client. I can query ...
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Automatic kerberos ticket initialization on login

I'm using ksshaskpass to add my password protected keys into ssh-agent upon logging into KDE, is there something similar for kerberos?