Hi All,

I have a setup where both the Ansible command machine itself and all the 
managed nodes are running Linux. 
They are part of Kerberos realm and I would like to use a directory user 
for Ansible SSH connections, authenticated from a Keytab file.

At the moment I have a solution where a cron job running on the command 
machine regularly performs a kinit on behalf of the account used by Ansible 
while I specify the following in the inventory file:

[all:vars]
# enable Kerberos ticket delegation for ssh and scp
ansible_ssh_extra_args=' -K '
ansible_scp_extra_args=' -o GSSAPIAuthentication=yes  '


While this works, I am wondering if there is any better way of doing this. 


Is my understanding correct that there is no out-of-the-box support for Ansible 
to authenticate its SSH sessions from a Kerberos *keytab file*? 
Is there any best practice/convention/recommendation for such cases you could 
point me to?

Thanks,
Peter

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