20.2. Managing Kerberos Principal Aliases for Users, Hosts, and Services When you create a new user, host, or service, a Kerberos principal in the following format is automatically added: user_name @ REALM host/ host_name @ REALM service_name / host_name @ REALM In some scenarios, it is beneficial for the administrator to enable users, hosts, or services to authenticate against Kerberos applications using an alias, for example: The user name changed, but the user should be able to login using both the and new user name. The user needs to log in using the email address even if the IdM Kerberos realm differs from the email domain. Note that if you rename a user, the object keeps the aliases and the canonical principal name. 20.2.1. Kerberos Principal Alias Adding a Kerberos Principal Alias To add the alias name useralias to the account user , enter: To add an alias to a host or service, use the ipa host-add-principal or ipa service-add-principal command respectively instead. If you use an alias name to authenticate, pass the -C option to the kinit command: Removing a Kerberos Principal Alias To remove the alias useralias from the account user , enter: To remove an alias from a host or service, use the ipa host-remove-principal or ipa service-remove-principal command respectively instead. Note that you cannot remove the canonical principal name: 20.2.2. Kerberos Enterprise Principal Alias Enterprise principal aliases can use any domain suffix except for user principal name (UPN) suffixes, NetBIOS names, or domain names of trusted Active Directory forest domains. Note When adding or removing enterprise principal aliases, escape the @ symbol using two backslashes ( \\ ). Otherwise, the shell interprets the @ symbol as part of the Kerberos realm name and leads to the following error: Adding a Kerberos Enterprise Principal Alias To add the enterprise principal alias user@example.com to the user account: To add an enterprise alias to a host or service, use the ipa host-add-principal or ipa service-add-principal command respectively instead. If you use an enterprise principal name to authenticate, pass the -E option to the kinit command: Removing a Kerberos Enterprise Principal Alias To remove the enterprise principal alias user@example.com from the account user , enter: To remove an alias from a host or service, use the ipa host-remove-principal or ipa service-remove-principal command respectively instead.

Commands:
ipa user-add-principal user useralias -------------------------------- Added new aliases to user "user" -------------------------------- User login: user Principal alias: user@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM, useralias@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM
kinit -C useralias Password for user@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM:
ipa user-remove-principal user useralias -------------------------------- Removed aliases from user "user" -------------------------------- User login: user Principal alias: user@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM
ipa user-show user User login: user Principal name: user@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM ipa user-remove-principal user user ipa: ERROR: invalid 'krbprincipalname': at least one value equal to the canonical principal name must be present
ipa: ERROR: The realm for the principal does not match the realm for this IPA server
ipa user-add-principal user user\\@example.com -------------------------------- Added new aliases to user "user" -------------------------------- User login: user Principal alias: user@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM, user\@example.com@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM
kinit -E user@example.com Password for user\@example.com@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM:
ipa user-remove-principal user user\\@example.com -------------------------------- Removed aliases from user "user" -------------------------------- User login: user Principal alias: user@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM