Passwordless access to kadmin?

[Bryan K. Wright]

Hi again,

	Thanks for your help, but I'm afraid I'm still clueless.
Several people have pointed out that I can store an appropriate
key in a keytab file, but can anyone give me some step-by-step
instructions on how to do this?  By the way, this is MIT Kerberos
version 1.6.1.

					Thanks,
					Bryan

John Hascall <john at iastate.edu> wrote:
>    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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Bryan Wright              |"If you take cranberries and stew them like 
Physics Department        | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes
University of Virginia    | than rhubarb does."  --  Groucho 
Charlottesville, VA  22901|			
(434) 924-7218            |         bryan at virginia.edu
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