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Enable Kerberos authentication for the KDB input and output adapters by setting the necessary environment variables and specifying the Authentication and espUser parameters.

Procedure

  1. Set the following environment variables:
    1. Set the ESP_SERVICE_NAME environment variable to set the service principal name.
    2. Set the ESP_GSSAPI_LIB environment variable to point to the shared library provided by the Kerberos install. The library contains the GSSAPI function implementations.
      Note If using a Kerberos library that depends on additional libraries, set the PATH environment variable for Windows or the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for Solaris and Linux.
    3. Set the KRB5CCNAME environment variable to point to the ticket cache.
    4. Set the KRB5_CONFIG environment variable to point to the configuration file used by the Kerberos library.
  2. Specify the following parameters:
    • Set the Authentication parameter to kerberos.
    • Set the espUser parameter.