Tag Archives: kerberos

Revision 659 – Added a JAASTOOL.BAT helper file

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On Dom’s request, I added a JAASTOOL.BAT file similar to VICT.BAT, VIFT.BAT, VIUPLOAD.BAT, etc to get over the nuisance of finding the install path and using it to run the JAR file.

Sure, people slag Java as though it’s as bad as PHP, but it really does run everywhere: Unix, Linux, Windows. Same code. The hard part is looking for the java.exe. If the problem is simply “find the file ‘java.exe’ on your computer”, and you cannot find a file on your PC, perhaps you should be ashamed! In cases where we are simply really, really tired/jet-lagged, this script iterates the most common known locations, and when upon finding the JAVA.EXE, uses it to execute the JAASTOOL.JAR file with the options given on the command line.

Yeah, it’s still a command line. I’m not so good at GUIs.

Revision 368 – Kerberos Config Helper

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Due to frustration on people updating Kerberos config data without actually, well, being correct, I’ve added a helper to vict.jar: “Created a quick tool to dump out Kerberos config information in text and XML format to help reduce ambiguity in documented AD authentication via Kerberos”.

I hope this avoids further misguided dependence on Jambons who just cannot check a detail.

Try it out on your server:

java -jar vict.jar --kerberos

There’s an article (How to Enable Active Directory Authentication via Kerberos) describing the process of adding a Kerberos user, but this output accelerates the process.