KfW unattended access using keytab

[Jeffrey Altman]

petesea at bigfoot.com wrote:
> I need to get kerberos access from an unattended Windows machine.  The 
> machine is used for automatic source code builds.
> 
> All builds are started from either a DOS command shell and batch files or 
> from a Cygwin shell and perl scripts.  In other words, no GUI interaction.
> 
> A few questions related to using kinit with a keytab file....
> 
>    - If only command line tools are used (kinit, klist, kdestroy), is there 
> any reason to start the Network Identity Manager?

No.

>    - I notice even the command line tools will display error messages in a 
> windows popup.  Is there anyway to prevent this?  Since the build machines 
> are unattended a Windows popup can cause problems, since the command that 
> caused it (eg kinit) won't terminate until the "OK" button on the Windows 
> popup is clicked.

What dialogs are you referring to?   With what commands were the dialogs
obtained?