Fwd: [Bug 1242] GSSAPI Keyexchange support

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Wilkinson
Just because I know readers of this list have been following the GSSAPI Key Exchange saga over the last 9 years, I thought the following mail from OpenSSH's bug tracking system might be of interest. I still believe that their argument is bogus, and I will continue to maintain the OpenSSH key ex

Re: kerberos and smartphone clients

2010-02-09 Thread Nikolay Shopik
On 09.02.2010 18:08, Luke Scharf wrote: > If you're using virtual users on the e-mail server, then saslauthd can > be configured to attempt to log in to Kerberos to see if the password is > valid instead of PAM. This is an application-level way to check > credentials, as opposed to a system-level

Re: Automatically distributing nfs/ssh host principals

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 9 Feb 2010, at 15:24, Ken Raeburn wrote: > The idea has been kicked around before, and I believe one variant > (registering a new host principal over a kadmin session protected by > anonymous PKINIT) has been tried out in MIT's current development code. What we do here is require the input

Re: Automatically distributing nfs/ssh host principals

2010-02-09 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Feb 9, 2010, at 05:17, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > However, this is still a bit painful, as it can't be included in > automatic installation scenarios, for instance. And requires us to track > information for each user, which doesn't prove to be very useful. I was > wondering of the security im

Re: kerberos and smartphone clients

2010-02-09 Thread Nikolay Shopik
On 09.02.2010 18:08, Luke Scharf wrote: > If you're using virtual users on the e-mail server, then saslauthd can > be configured to attempt to log in to Kerberos to see if the password is > valid instead of PAM. This is an application-level way to check > credentials, as opposed to a system-level

Re: kerberos and smartphone clients

2010-02-09 Thread Luke Scharf
Nikolay Shopik wrote: > You mean PAM on client? This won't work for me most clients running > Windows and few Mac OS X. And I use virtual users so they don't show > up in getent passwd. > > So for now I have only one option run plain text password db along > with Kerberos for users who wish logi

Automatically distributing nfs/ssh host principals

2010-02-09 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Hello list. In order to allow our users to set up their own machines for kerberized NFS, we deployed a custom CGI application allowing them, once autenticated, to create nfs/hostname principals, and extract corresponding keytab file. As part of the process, they register themselves as owner of

Re: kerberos and smartphone clients

2010-02-09 Thread Nikolay Shopik
On 09.02.2010 0:46, Luke Scharf wrote: > Nikolay Shopik wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm in middle of process making my mail server Kerberized. Currently >> my infrastructure is only password based, but I plan move to PKINIT >> thus using certificate based authentication. Afterward I though abou