Passwordless access to kadmin?
John Hascall
john at iastate.edu
Tue Jul 17 11:21:43 EDT 2007
Extract the key into a keytab and use this:
-k keytab
???
John
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm new to kerberos, and I'm trying to figure out how
> to invoke kadmin from a web-based script, without prompting for
> the root/admin password. (FWIW, this is part of an account-
> migration scheme. Users will authenticate with their NIS
> credentials, then the script will create a kerberos principal
> for them.)
>
> I realize that I could just use "kadmin -w" and stick
> the password in plaintext into the script, but I'd rather not
> have to do that. Is there a more secure way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bryan
>
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