Re: Packagers - Flag day 2016 Important changes

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On 12/14/2016 09:19 AM, Dave Love wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:36:06 +0000
>> Dave Love <d.love@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> If you really need to automate it because typing a password is too
>>>> hard: cat ~/.mykrbpassword | kinit myusername  
>>>
>>> It needs to be automated principally because the password is not
>>> memorable.  I assume infrastructure people would rather we don't use
>>> the least secure credentials we can.
>>
>> I can't speak for others, but the thought of putting your fas password
>> in plain text in some start up file makes me cry.
> 
> Yes, but if people can read it and it only has owner access they could
> have stolen the certificate, possibly can steal your ccache, and bets
> are off.  A keytab isn't plain text, but isn't encrypted; it's used as
> "kinit -t <keytab>" with Heimdal and something similar with MIT.
> However, I now can't remember whether you need kadmin access to populate
> it, and don't know if that's available.
> 

You do not; you can manipulate a keytab in your local user space with `ktutil`


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