Kerberos keytab

[Ansar Mohammed]

Does anyone know what is the actual purpose of the Kerberos krb5.keytab
file?

 

 I have a freebsd 7 configured to authenticate users via Kerberos (both
apache and ssh).

 

Although the authentication between apache and browser is still basic and
between the ssh client and server is still keyboard interactive. FreeBSD
validates the account in the background using Kerberos to AD.