[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 305 remove a principal from a keytab

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Fri Dec 4 21:29:40 UTC 2009


Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:30 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> I wasn't able to find a command-line program to remove principals from a 
>> keytab so I wrote my own. ktutil can do it but it doesn't take 
>> command-line arguments. Java ships a utility named ktab but adding a 
>> huge dependency for one app seem a bit much :-)
>>
>> In any case, this program has 2 modes:
>>
>> 1. Given a keytab and a principal, remove all entries of that principal 
>> from the keytab. This removes all versions and encryption types.
>>
>> 2. Given a realm remove all principals in that realm. I cheat a little 
>> and insert an @ before the principal name because all this really does 
>> is a strstr() to see if the principal in the keytab is in the realm 
>> provided.
>>
>> This utility will be added to the ipa-client-uninstall script at some 
>> point to clean up /etc/krb5.keytab.
>>
>> rob
> 
> ack.  Rob walked me through its use on #freeipa, and it works as
> advertised.
> 

pushed to master




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