On 19.10 the bug does not occur and keytab entries are correct: I joined to AD with: realm join --user-principal=KUBUNTU-TEST$ --automatic-id-mapping=no --membership-software=samba --client-software=winbind --computer-name=kubuntu-test --os-name=Ubuntu --os-version=19.10 MPI-DORTMUND.MPG.DE root@kubuntu-test:# klist -kte Keytab name: FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab KVNO Timestamp Principal ---- ------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ 3 01.12.2020 17:04:15