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Re: GSSAPI Issue

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Wed Nov 24 13:55:38 2010

From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> It is possible to forward credentials from the client to the server.
> For this to work, the following must be true:

> * You must have obtained forwardable tickets on the client.  You can do
> this with kinit -f, or by setting "forwardable = true" in the
> [libdefaults] section of krb5.conf.

> * "GSSAPIDelegateCredentials yes" must be set in ssh_config, or
> specified on the command line with ssh -o GSSAPIDelegateCredentials=yes.

ssh -K is a shortcut for the latter and lets you choose for each ssh
command whether you want to forward tickets.  I usually only use the ssh
setting for specific hosts I use a lot and explicitly add the -K when I
want to forward tickets to other hosts.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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