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@vermaden@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

New 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀/𝗟𝗗𝗔𝗣 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗜𝗣𝗔/𝗜𝗗𝗠 article based on @Larvitz work - credit goes to him.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/native-freebsd-kerberos-ldap-with-freeipa-idm/

#verblog #freebsd #kerberos #idm #freeipa #ssh

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Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM

I want to make this clear in the first sentence because its biggest chance that people will read it – this article is entirely based on work done by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz) that wro…

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@Larvitz@burningboard.net · 6 days ago

@vermaden Great araticle! :-)

Just some security nitpicking:

cp /root/fbsd15.keytab /usr/share/ipa/html/

I wouldn't do that in a production environment. This puts the (sensitive) Keytab on the Webroot of the IPA server.

Using SCP would be safer. But for a lab-environment, this is probably fine.

vermaden

@vermaden@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

@Larvitz

Thanks :)

I modified the article to copy the keytab using scp(1) instead.

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