![]() ![]() The gist however is that,Ī keytab is a file containing pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys (derived from the Kerberos password), which can be used to log in using Kerberos without being prompted for a password. You can read the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s definition of a keytab in here and a very detailed outline about it by Indiana University in here. You may also have created many of these “keytab” files and handed them over to the dev guys but still have no idea of what they are – well at least that was me a year back. If you have been in places where people were trying to configure single sign-on for Java based application servers such as Oracle WebLogic or JBOSS or IBM WebSphere you might probably have heard the word “keytab” many times. ![]()
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