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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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 ...