How to obtain a keytab for a Windows application server?

[Jeffrey Altman]

The kadm5 library is currently not supported on Windows as part of KfW.
It would certainly be a worth while feature to request.  Why don't you
send a feature request to krb5-bugs (at) mit.edu.

Jeffrey Altman


Colin Caughie wrote:
>>"kadmin" is a KDC administration tool.  KfW does not include "kadmin"
>>because KfW does not support the hosting of a KDC on Windows.
> 
> 
> ...but the kadmin client can also be used to administer a remote KDC can it
> not? So it would still be useful to have on Windows even if you can't have a
> KDC on Windows. Especially given that (unless I'm mistaken) kadmin is the
> recommended way of securely getting a keytab onto an application server
> machine.
> 
> (I think what I'm really after is the kadm5 library, not kadmin itself -- 
> I'm looking for a programmatic way of initialising the keytab on the
> application server).
> 
> Cheers,
> Colin Caughie
> 
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