Multiple host names in a single kerberos key tab

19 November, 2008 (14:33) | 1 comment

If you are using clustered service with kerberos, you may want to merge hostnames keytab files to one for simple distribution.

Create host and service principals.

kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node1.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node2.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node3.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node4.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node5.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node6.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node7.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc [...]