Client keytab ignored

[steve]

On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 17:34 +0100, Michael-O wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to obtain a service ticket with a client keytab for my account. Unfortunately it fails. I wanted to narrow this down and tried to peform the very same operation with
> $ kinit -k -t my.keytab
> and it says kinit: Keytab contains no suitable keys for host/fqdn at REALM while getting initial credentials.
> 
> The question is, why does it completely ignore my keytab and tries the default one in /etc?

It isn't, is it? Does your keytab have the host key? It is not only you
who must authenticate, but also the machine upon which you are working.
HTH
Steve