As a MINIMUM, on each application server, you'll need to put:

   * A Kerberos configuration file (/etc/krb5.conf).
   * The Kerberos application server daemons (telnetd, rlogind, ftpd, etc).
   * At least one encryption key (usually stored in /etc/krb5.keytab).

The encryption key is really the critical part; it needs to be transmitted
to the application server host in a secure fashion. This is typically the
key for the host principal (host/foo.bar.org@REALM). Note that the MIT admin
client kadmin encrypts all of the transfers between it and the admin server,
so using ktadd from inside of kadmin is safe, provided that you're not
sending your admin password over the network in the clear.

You'll probably want to put the Kerberos client binaries on each application
server as well, if you plan on having interactive user logins on your
application servers.

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