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Re: GSSAPI Issue

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garrett Wollman)
Wed Nov 24 14:45:07 2010

From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:19:05 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <mailman.422.1290620369.20243.kerberos@mit.edu>,
Greg Hudson  <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote:

>Note that forwarding credentials has security implications, in that it
>allows the server to do things on your behalf that it wouldn't otherwise
>be able to do.  If you elect set GSSAPIDelegateCredentials yes in
>ssh_config, you may wish to restrict it to a Host section.

Right.  We do it like this:

Host *.mit.edu
  GSSAPIDelegateCredentials yes
  GSSAPIRenewalForcesRekey yes
Host *.*
  GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no
Host *
  GSSAPIDelegateCredentials yes
  GSSAPIRenewalForcesRekey yes

(The last section might be OBE by now.)

-GAWollman

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