Accessing the principle's passwords in MIT kerberos

[Abdelrahman Almahmoud]

Thanks for the help and sorry for the late reply
The kerberos I am trying to modify uses the built in backend, kdc.conf tells me where the data is stored but I don't know in what format it is stored and how to read it.I searched for information on libkdb5  but I only found the libraries for download and not much information on it.Is there a written documentation on the database structure or an application that would facilitate access to the data? I want my application to share the same data as the kerberos backend and possibly add more information to it

note: sorry for the double email, I was trying to figure out how to use the mailing list etc
Sincerely
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:48:35 -0500
> From: kaduk at MIT.EDU
> To: fire_storm5002 at hotmail.com
> CC: kerberos at MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Accessing the principle's passwords in MIT kerberos
> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Abdelrahman Almahmoud wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > I am trying to get my Java code access to the database that stores the principal names and passwords but I can't seem to find the file anywhere. Can someone kindly give me more information about this?
> > Thanks,
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The MIT KDC does not store passwords.  The KDC can be configured to use 
> one of several database backends; most of the documentation is written for 
> the built-in db2 backend.  If you are working with an existing deployment, 
> you will need to know which type of backend is in use, presumably by 
> examining kdc.conf (or krb5.conf if the database is configured there).
> For the db2 backend, you may find libkdb5 useful.
> 
> -Ben Kaduk