[Samba] Samba4 kinit issue with principal and keytab file

[Rowland Penny]

On 12/02/15 13:39, Olivier BILHAUT wrote:
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> Hi Rowland,
>
> Yes, I read this documentation carefully. I have two
> working Apache2 with kerberos authentication working.
>
> My question is
> more about troubleshooting a keytab. If I need to test manually a keytab
> file chalenging a specific principal, what's the prefered method ?
>
> I
> thougt that a kinit could be done using a principal name, but I am
> unable to kinit with somehting else than the user at REALM
>
> Any help ?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Olivier

OK, you have an AD user called 'kerbuser'

You have created a keytab for your user

Now when you run kinit, you need to specify what cache to use:

kinit -k -t /etc/my.keytab -c /tmp/kerbuser.krb5cc kerbuser

Rowland