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Re: gss_accept_sec_context

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Nov 2 16:02:08 2007

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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:01:32 -0400
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On Nov 2, 2007, at 13:54, Kevin Coffman wrote:
> On 11/2/07, Manoj Mohan <manojm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>  when I did ktutil of my keytab file.. I had 2 entries (with KVNO  
>> 2)...
>>  I deleted the file and recreated it with ktadd but with -e option  
>> to add only one
>>  encryption type and then the accept_context worked.
>>
>>  What is the usual practice? Should we always do ktadd with -e  
>> option? Why is it
>>  generating 2 entries when I do only ktadd (without -e) .. when in my
>>  krb5.conf there is only one encryption listed like this:
>>
>>  [libdefaults]
>>   default_realm = EXAMPLE.IBM.COM
>>   default_keytab_name = FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab
>>   default_tkt_enctypes = des-cbc-crc
>>   default_tgs_enctypes = des-cbc-crc
>
> ktadd does not look at those enctype definitions on the local machine
> where you run ktadd.  What is used is the "supported_enctypes" defined
> for the realm in the kdc configuration.  If your service doesn't
> support all the enctypes listed there, then you must limit the list
> with the -e option when doing the ktadd.

We wouldn't want to look at the *default* ticket encryption types on  
the server anyways, but the set of supported enctypes on the server.   
If that list isn't being used (as specified, or the compiled-in  
default), in addition to the KDC-side restrictions, it's probably a  
bug, I think.

Ken
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