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### Salts

Your Kerberos key is derived from your password. To ensure that people who happen to pick the same password do not have the same key, Kerberos 5 incorporates more information into the key using something called a salt. The supported values for salts are as follows.

`normal`
  default for Kerberos Version 5
`v4`
  the only type used by Kerberos Version 4, no salt
`norealm`
  same as the default, without using realm information
`onlyrealm`
  uses only realm information as the salt
`afs3`
  AFS version 3, only used for compatibility with Kerberos 4 in AFS
`special`
  only used in very special cases; not fully supported