[Freeipa-users] ldapsearch in cron job woes about no credentials

[Harald Dunkel]

On 06/09/16 15:16, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Platform: freeipa 4.2 (Centos7)
> 
> Problem: My cron job needs a ticket to run ldapsearch. The
> error message is:
> 
>         SASL/GSSAPI authentication started
>         ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Local error (-2)
>         additional info: SASL(-1): generic failure: GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information (No Kerberos credentials available)
> 
> Google pointed me to this solution
> 
> 	http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/krb/kerberos-faq.html#kerbcron
> 
> I wonder what is the "freeipa way" to handle this scenario,
> esp. how to generate the additional kerberos entry without
> confusing FreeIPA? Maybe I am too blind to see, but I haven't
> found this problem in the FAQs.
> 

Too much noob?

Harri