Obtaining Service Ticket with TGT only (via shell commands)

[Russ Allbery]

Frank Gruellich <frank.gruellich at navteq.com> writes:
> Greg Hudson wrote:

>> but I believe that would compromise the requirement that people have to
>> reenter their passwords in order to run kadmin.

> But that's, in fact, my intention.  I know, that kadmin is some kind of
> critical tool.  If security aspects are the only problem with this set
> up I'll drop them.  I accept that kadmin/admin service is just something
> like host/eloy.example.com.

The primary practical effect of this restriction is to implement the
common security requirement that people re-enter their passwords in order
to change their password.  If you drop the special configuration for
kadmin, you will drop that requirement.  If you don't care, then you don't
care.  :)

What I would do if I were you is have your script switch ticket caches,
prompt the admin to authenticate and thereby obtain a kadmin/admin ticket
using kinit -S, and then use that ticket cache for all your operations.
Then, when you're done, kdestroy and switch back to their current ticket
cache.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>