kerberos_server

This role helps in installing Kerberos server on the target host. The playbook deploys the kerberos server and creates a new realm as specified in the paramter, it also creates a default admin user which can be used for managing this kerberos server. The default admin name can be specified via "kadmin_user" and password via "kadmin_pass"

Requirements

This role requires ansible 1.4 or higher and platform requirements are listed in the metadata file

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role and a brief description about them are as follows:

kerberos_server_realm_name: EXAMPLE.COM         # The realm name for the kerneros server
kerberos_server_kdc_port: 88                    # The port in which kdc should listen
kerberos_server_master_db_pass: foobar          # Password for the master kerberos database
kerberos_server_kadmin_pass: foobar             # Password for the kerberos admin
kerberos_server_kadmin_user: benz               # Username for the kerberos server

Example

Following is an example which deploys are kerberos server with Realm as BENNO.COM and a admin user "root" and password "foobar"

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - {role: kerberos_server, kerberos_server_realm_name: "BENNO.COM", 
                        kerberos_server_kadmin_user: "root", 
                        kerberos_server_kadmin_pass: "foobar" }

Dependencies

None

License

BSD

Author Information

Benno Joy