{"id":401,"date":"2019-11-07T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/?page_id=401"},"modified":"2019-11-12T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:05:06","slug":"keytab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/keytab\/","title":{"rendered":"KeyTab \/ Kerberos Key Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p >Keytab files (\/etc\/krb5.keytab, for example) are used to securely identify a item or group of items. For instance, in the <a href=\"\/engit\/knowledge-base\/linux\/nssqidb\">NssQidb<\/a> system, they are used to ensure that hosts that are authenticating are from the correct subnet. <\/p>\n<p >You can view the contents of a keytab file if you wish (if you have access to read the file): <\/p>\n<p >\n<pre class=\"darkSnippet\">klist -k \/etc\/krb5.keytab<\/pre>\n<p >This will show you the contents of the file. For example: <\/p>\n<p >\n<pre class=\"darkSnippet\">anc:~$ klist -k ldap.signals23.keytab <br\/>Keytab name: FILE:ldap.signals23.keytab<br\/>KVNO Principal<br\/>---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------<br\/>   4 ldap\/signals23.bu.edu@AD.BU.EDU<\/pre>\n<p >This key file is saying that signals23.bu.edu has trust to use the LDAP service via the computer account signals23.bu.edu on AD.BU.EDU. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keytab files (\/etc\/krb5.keytab, for example) are used to securely identify a item or group of items. For instance, in the NssQidb system, they are used to ensure that hosts that are authenticating are from the correct subnet. You can view the contents of a keytab file if you wish (if you have access to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"parent":868,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions\/889"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/engit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}