[CentOS] Kerberos integration in directory server

Dan Burkland dburklan at NMDP.ORG
Wed Jan 27 14:08:00 UTC 2010


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> Behalf Of nimmermehr at chello.at
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> Subject: [CentOS] Kerberos integration in directory server
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at
> centos.org] On
> >> Behalf Of nimmermehr at chello.at
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:23 AM
> >> To: centos at centos.org
> >> Subject: [CentOS] Kerberos integration in directory server
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Got some issues regarding Kerberos and Directory Server and hope
> someone
> >> can help me out.
> >> Used these for the configiruation :
> >> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-
> kerberos.html
> >> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/install/index.html
> >>
> >> Server : CentOS 5.4 with Kerberos and Directory Server installed
> >> Client : CentOS 5.4
> >>
> >> I use putty to connect to the client, which authenticates against the
> >> server.
> >> Using Kerberos or LDAP worked perfectly (using system-config-
> >> authentication on the client for configuration)
> >>
> >> The only thing that doesn't seem to work is the kerberized version of
> the
> >> login via LDAP on the directory Server. Shouldn't I get a Kerberos
> ticket
> >> for that ? If I activate kerberos AND ldap in system-config-
> authentication
> >> it fails :
> >>
> >> Jan 25 13:24:59 monarch sshd[3947]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): check pass;
> user
> >> unknown
> >> Jan 25 13:24:59 monarch sshd[3947]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication
> >> failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.168.0.1
> >> Jan 25 13:24:59 monarch sshd[3947]: pam_succeed_if(sshd:auth): error
> >> retrieving information about user testuser
> >> Jan 25 13:25:01 monarch sshd[3947]: Failed password for invalid user
> >> testuser from 192.168.0.1 port 1142 ssh2
> >>
> >> I followed the instructions here :
> >> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Kerberos
> >>
> >> Maybe I just didn't get it ;)
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Peter
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> 
> >My setup is a tad different than yours in that I integrated MIT Kerberos
> with OpenLDAP. While our configurations are different I'm sure >you're
> trying for kerberized logins (System authenticates against Kerberos and
> pulls account information from LDAP). If so here are >some items you may
> want to verify you have included in your system-auth config file.
> 
> >Auth	sufficient	pam_krb5.so use_first_pass
> >Auth	sufficient	pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
> 
> >Account sufficient	pam_ldap.so
> >Account required	pam_unix.so
> 
> >Password sufficient pam_krb5.so
> >Password sufficient pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok try_first_pass
> use_authok
> 
> >Session	optional	pam_keyinit.so revoke
> >Session	optional	pam_krb5.so
> 
> >Dan
> 
> Just to see if I understood it correctly :
> It is mandatory that every LDAP-User has a functional Kerberos-login (user
> and PW). Is it possible for such a user to access a server that only has
> ldap for authentication and checks against the LDAP-Server ?
> 
> About testing : How can I check if the information is pulled out of ldap ?
> 
> Thanks in advance :)
> 
> Peter
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If you are utilizing Kerberos on the authentication part of the process then you need the user to exist in LDAP also as Kerberos cannot hold Unix account information (UID #, GID#, etc). I'm not too certain on where Directory Server stores its log files but you should be able to check there for lookups for "username" around the time of attempted login.  

Dan 



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