HttpClient Kerberos Keytab authentication without login.conf

Question

I can successfully send and receive HTTP requests to servers with kerberos, following this and stackoverflow instructions like this or others, and they all require login.conf. However, I'd like to know if there's anyway to get rid of the login.conf file, and set Kerberos authentication details programmatically.

Answer 1

I understood that you want to avoid the login.conf. From the other hand you can see this tutorial , where:

custom-client {
    com.sun.security.auth.module.Krb5LoginModule required
    storeKey=true
    useKeyTab=true
    keyTab = "file:///c:/spnego-examples/hellokeytab.keytab"
    principal=metis;
}