Configuring the Kerberos Environment

Configuration Files for Kerberos Clients

Configuration Files for Kerberos Clients

Table 3-1 lists and describes the files that you use to configure a Kerberos server or a Kerberos client using PAM Kerberos. Samples of all the configuration files shown in the table are listed in the Appendices.

Table 3-1

Kerberos Configuration Files

 

 

 

 

 

Purposes

Kerberos

Kerberos

PAM

Server

Client

Kerberos

 

 

 

 

 

Configure

N/A

N/A

/etc/pam.

Kerberos as

 

 

conf

the module for

 

 

 

authentication

 

 

 

and password

 

 

 

management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specify the

/opt/krb5/krb.

/etc/krb5.conf

/etc/krb5.

defaults and

conf

 

conf

the location of

 

 

 

the Kerberos

 

 

 

server

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Associate the

/etc/services

/etc/services

/etc/servi

Kerberos

 

 

ces

services with

 

 

 

the ports

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specify

/opt/krb5/krb.

N/A

N/A

Kerberos

conf

 

 

configuration

/opt/krb5/krb.

 

 

information

realms

 

 

including

 

 

 

defaults used

 

 

 

to issue

 

 

 

Kerberos

 

 

 

tickets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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