Script Kerberos Ktutil to make keytabs

Question

I want to make a script that will generate the a keytab using ktutil. When running the script I want to use [user]$ script.sh PASSWORD

#script.sh
echo \"addent -         


        

Answer 1

With GNU bash:

user="PRINCIPAL"
pass="topsecret"

printf "%b" "addent -password -p $user -k 1 -e aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96\n$pass\nwrite_kt $user.keytab" | ktutil

printf "%b" "read_kt $user.keytab\nlist" | ktutil

Output:

slot KVNO Principal
---- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   1    1                          PRINCIPAL@YOURDOMAIN