gss_acquire_cred with specific keytab

Kiran Kumar M mkiran at india.hp.com
Thu Sep 2 12:51:12 EDT 2004


Oops ! I mentioned the wrong env variable, KRB5_KTNAME is the correct name

Kiran Kumar M wrote:

> If you are linking your application to the generic gssapi ( libgss.so )
> instead of libgssapi_krb5.so then you can use a putenv() to set the
> DEFAULT_KEYTAB_NAME to any desired keytab file location
>
> -Kiran
>
> Jacques Lebastard wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I wrote a simple GSS-API server program (as simple as gss-server).
> >
> > This program works fine _if_ the server's principal entry exists in
> > /etc/krb5/keytab (I'm running on Solaris 9).
> >
> > I'd like to isolate the server's key in a specific keytab file.
> > It is possible to add extra calls prior to gss_acquire_cred so that
> > Kerberos uses this specific keytab file when searching for the
> > principal's key ?
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