5.4. Managed Service Account specifications
The Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) that the adcli utility creates have the following specifications:
- They cannot have additional service principal names (SPNs).
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By default, the Kerberos principal for the MSA is stored in a Kerberos keytab named
<default_keytab_location>.<Active_Directory_domain>, like/etc/krb5.keytab.production.example.com. MSA names are limited to 20 characters or fewer. The last 4 characters are a suffix of 3 random characters from number and upper- and lowercase ASCII ranges appended to the short host name you provide, using a
!character as a separator. For example, a host with the short namemyhostreceives an MSA with the following specifications:Expand Specification Value Common name (CN) attribute
myhost!A2cNetBIOS name
myhost!A2c$sAMAccountName
myhost!A2c$Kerberos principal in the
production.example.comAD domainmyhost!A2c$@PRODUCTION.EXAMPLE.COM