keytab – Tarik Billa

What is a keytab exactly?

September 3, 2023 by Tarik

To answer your two questions, every user and service does not need a keytab file and keytabs use symmetric key cryptography. I’m going to explain a bit more based on my understanding on how keytabs are used in mixed networks of Windows and non-Windows systems using Active Directory as the directory service. If the directory … Read more

When using –negotiate with curl, is a keytab file required?

July 23, 2023 by Tarik

Being a once-in-a-while-contributor to curl in that area. Here is what you need to know: curl(1) itself knows nothing about Kerberos and will not interact neither with your credential cache nor your keytab file. It will delegate all calls to a GSS-API implementation which will do the magic for you. What magic depends on the … Read more