Re: Information on "Kadmin.local" database lock error

2012-08-08 Thread Abhilash S
Hello Tom, Version and OS: we have kerberos 1.9.2 version. It is running under Linux (x86_64 GNU/Linux). KDC Traffic : we do have heavy kadmin traffic. we used to get avg or 4-7 Authentication request per second For updating kerbero

krb5-1.10.3 is released

2012-08-08 Thread Tom Yu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The MIT Kerberos Team announces the availability of MIT Kerberos 5 Release 1.10.3. Please see below for a list of some major changes included, or consult the README file in the source tree for a more detailed list of significant changes. RETRIEVING K

Re: Information on "Kadmin.local" database lock error

2012-08-08 Thread Tom Yu
Abhilash S writes: > Hello, > > I need few information on the kadmin.local utility. > > In few occasions am getting error "Cannot lock database while modifying" > when trying to modify or change the password of a principal. > Is it due to lock on KDC principal db file, or in what situations this

Re: GSSAPI auth and NAT Problems

2012-08-08 Thread Tom Yu
Jeremy Hunt writes: > Hi Mauricio, > > Doug is right, I misread your request, my apologies. > > Googling kerberos, nat and ssh gives many responses all saying that the > only way to do this is to use tickets with no address in them. You can > do this by using the kinit command with either the -

Re: GSSAPI auth and NAT Problems

2012-08-08 Thread Jeremy Hunt
Hi Mauricio, Doug is right, I misread your request, my apologies. Googling kerberos, nat and ssh gives many responses all saying that the only way to do this is to use tickets with no address in them. You can do this by using the kinit command with either the -n, -a or -A switch. For security

Information on "Kadmin.local" database lock error

2012-08-08 Thread Abhilash S
Hello, I need few information on the kadmin.local utility. In few occasions am getting error "Cannot lock database while modifying" when trying to modify or change the password of a principal. Is it due to lock on KDC principal db file, or in what situations this can occur. I am seeing this occu

Re: ssh gssapi-with-mic and "Key table entry not found"

2012-08-08 Thread Greg Hudson
On 08/08/2012 12:33 PM, Greg Hudson wrote: > If the server is running krb5 1.7 or later, this kind of problem should > result in a "Wrong principal in request" error in the sshd output (which > is still not very clear, but at least helps distinguish the problem from > sshd trying to acquire the wro

Re: ssh gssapi-with-mic and "Key table entry not found"

2012-08-08 Thread Greg Hudson
On 08/08/2012 12:03 PM, Matt Garman wrote: > I don't know enough about how Kerberos works, but I'll speculate a > guess as to what was wrong yesterday: after a failed gssapi-with-mic > login attempt, some "residual stuff" gets attached to the original > TGT, some kind of "cache" of the "permission

Re: ssh gssapi-with-mic and "Key table entry not found"

2012-08-08 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Greg Hudson wrote: > On 08/07/2012 01:23 PM, Matt Garman wrote: >> [root@lnxsvr11 ~]# grep 192.168.187.67 /etc/hosts >> 192.168.187.67 lnxsvr11.mydomain.com lnxsvr11 >> [root@lnxsvr11 ~]# grep "lnxsvr11\." /etc/hosts >> 192.168.187.67 l

Re: GSSAPI auth and NAT Problems

2012-08-08 Thread Douglas E. Engert
On 8/7/2012 11:12 PM, Jeremy Hunt wrote: > > Reverse the order of aliases for the IP address in your /etc/hosts file. > The first named alias is used for your ticket generation. This is a > common problem with short and FQDNs in /etc/hosts. Then ssh to ssh.lan.com would work, but not ssh to ker