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Kerboros credentials on Linux

  • 1.  Kerboros credentials on Linux

    Posted Mar 25, 2020 08:29 AM
    Morning All,

    Hope everyone out there is well.

    Is anyone using Kerboros authentication to access applications on Linux.  We're standing up a new application that is migrating from Windows to Linux.  The issue we currently have is that a Linux WOB does not logon like a Windows WOB, no password is used, it's using SETUID.  This does not result in Kerboros credentials to be generated.

    Is there anyway for a Linux job to generate the credentials at run time.  Is a keytab file the only option in this instance?  If a keytab file is used, who is in charge of populating and maintaining it, is it the application team or is that an operational support function.

    Any help would be appreciated.  Our scheduling manager is ESP so there may be differences for other managers but any feedback would be great.

    Thanks,
    Len

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