MinIO supports two kerberos authentication methods, keytab and ccache.
To enable kerberos authentication, you need to set `hadoop.security.authentication=kerberos` in the HDFS config file.
```xml
<property>
<name>hadoop.security.authentication</name>
<value>kerberos</value>
</property>
```
MinIO will load `krb5.conf` from environment variable `KRB5_CONFIG` or default location `/etc/krb5.conf`.
```sh
export KRB5_CONFIG=/path/to/krb5.conf
```
If you want MinIO to use ccache for authentication, set environment variable `KRB5CCNAME` to the credential cache file path,
or MinIO will use the default location `/tmp/krb5cc_%{uid}`.
```sh
export KRB5CCNAME=/path/to/krb5cc
```
If you prefer to use keytab, with automatically renewal, you need to config three environment variables:
- `KRB5KEYTAB`: the location of keytab file
- `KRB5USERNAME`: the username
- `KRB5REALM`: the realm
Please note that the username is not principal name.
```sh
export KRB5KEYTAB=/path/to/keytab
export KRB5USERNAME=hdfs
export KRB5REALM=REALM.COM
```
## Test using MinIO Browser
*MinIO gateway* comes with an embedded web based object browser. Point your web browser to http://127.0.0.1:9000 to ensure that your server has started successfully.