Could not find keytab file: /etc/libvirt/krb5.tab: Permission denied

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Issue

  • Our logs are filled with error messages triggering automatic responses from our Tivoli monitoring:
May 12 05:00:05 hostname ricci[6396]: [ID - user.notice]  Executing '/usr/bin/virsh nodeinfo'
May 12 05:00:05 hostname libvirtd: [ID - auth.err]  Could not find keytab file: /etc/libvirt/krb5.tab: Permission denied
  • when boot guest with qemu-kvm, there is a message:
Mar 17 10:46:26 hostname qemu-kvm: Could not find keytab file: /etc/qemu/krb5.tab: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

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