KRB.CONF(5)

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💖 KRB.CONF 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about krb.conf — the manual page for it, page 5, AFS File Reference section 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

krb.conf — literally just the file that tells your Kerberos realm which AFS cell it's allowed to slide into 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

/etc/openafs/server/krb.conf is an optional file (optional, bestie, optional, don't stress) that lives on an OpenAFS server 💖 Its whole job? Saying which Kerberos5 realms are trusted to authenticate to the local AFS cell. That's it. That's the gig. 👑

The format is giving minimalist icon: one or more realms, separated by white space, all on the first line of the file. No, seriously, just the first line. Don't get cute with it. 💀

Now here's the slay part: if the Kerberos5 realm matches the AFS cell name (case-insensitive, so don't come for the capital letters 🫶), then you can straight up omit this file entirely. It's not needed. It's not the moment. Let it go. 🦋

krb.conf is only needed when:

  • the Kerberos5 realm does not match the cell name, or
  • multiple Kerberos5 realms authenticate to the same AFS cell 🌈

That's the entire vibe check. If neither of those is you, this file can stay unmade, and honestly? iconic of it. ⭐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read that one too, it's the sister file, iykyk 🧚

Copyright 2008 Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>

This documentation is covered by the BSD License as written in the doc/LICENSE file. This man page was written by Jason Edgecombe for OpenAFS. 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 written by Jason Edgecombe for OpenAFS, rocking the OpenAFS energy from the 2026-07-27 era, mwah 😭💖 so go configure your realms, stay case-insensitive, and remember: only the first line counts. periodt. 👑

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