Hi Valerie Please take a look at
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8014196/webrev.01/KeyTab.getInstance() used to return null if the keytab file does not exists, but since we supported dynamic ktab, the result is never null. But the KeyTab object has not initialize its kt_vno.
The fix includes two parts: 1. Initialize kt_vno in KeyTab even if isMissing or !isValid 2. Make clear in what cases ktab.exe should fail. Thanks Max