Kinit programatically??

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Jun 24 00:30:00 EDT 2008


You should really keep copying the mailing list so that other people can
also help.  I've re-added the mailing list as a cc.

"kul gupta" <kulg123 at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks a lot
> It helped me
> I read the link provided by u for Kstart
> But Can i use it for the authentication  on the client side?
> When using Kinit ( or using krb5_get_init_creds_password ),it direcltly
> contacts KDC.
> Is there any possible way or API  where i can get the credentials in between
> KDC and the client.

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.  If you're asking if there's a
way to get a Kerberos TGT without contacting the KDC, the answer is no.
That's a requirement of the Kerberos protocol and is fundamental to how
Kerberos works.  If you're asking something else, could you try
rephrasing?

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