System Administration Guide: Security Services

Example—Temporarily Disabling a Service on a Host

In the following example, the host service on the denver host is temporarily disabled. To enable the host service back on denver, you would copy the krb5.keytab.temp file to the /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab file.


denver # cp /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab.temp
denver # /usr/bin/ktutil
    ktutil:read_kt /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab
    ktutil:list
slot KVNO Principal
---- ---- ---------------------------------------
   1    8 root/denver@EXAMPLE.COM
   2    5 host/denver@EXAMPLE.COM
    ktutil:delete_entry 2
    ktutil:list
slot KVNO Principal
---- ---- --------------------------------------
   1    8 root/denver@EXAMPLE.COM
    ktutil:write_kt /etc/krb5/krb5.keytab
    ktutil: quit