Common keytab file for all the application servers - Is itpossible???

[Markus Moeller]

This type of setup won't work.  You have to differentiate between what is 
possible with Kerberos/GSSAPI and how are existing applications (e.g. 
telnet,ftp,HTTP) using it. With telnet,ftp,HTTP you are bound to DNS 
resolutions (A record and reverse, hosts files are possible but painful). If 
you write your own Kerberos/GSSAPI applications you can define it yourself 
and can do it independant of DNS.

Regards
Markus

<sandypossible at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> If I go for the same keytab knowing that there is compromise of
> security, I have some questions.
>
> Assuming that I have a windows 2003 KDC. I have two linux machines. I
> will add a user account and generate a keytab file using ktpass. Please
> note that the ktpass tool requires us to specify  host/<fqdn>.  I will
> now copy the same keytab file to both these linux machines. Now from
> another windows XP I will try to connect to one linux machine using
> telnet. My question is how will the windows XP machine  connect to the
> correct linux machine ?  How will the identification of the correct
> telnet server happen if both linux machines are running telnet daemon?
>
>
> - Sandy.
>