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

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