krb5 commit: Update LDAP docs for password lockout

Greg Hudson ghudson at mit.edu
Wed Jul 13 12:54:37 EDT 2016


https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/c6550832235c63ccfaceb61864e887a675b02619
commit c6550832235c63ccfaceb61864e887a675b02619
Author: Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu>
Date:   Thu Jul 7 16:58:02 2016 -0400

    Update LDAP docs for password lockout
    
    The KDC now needs write access to the LDAP KDB, unless password
    lockout and tracking of the last successful authentication time are
    disabled.  Update the example LDAP access control configuration in
    conf_ldap.rst to reflect this, add a note that only read access is
    required if lockout is disabled, and add a section to lockout.rst
    calling out the need for write access.  Reported by Will Fiveash.
    
    ticket: 8452 (new)
    target_version: 1.14-next
    target_version: 1.13-next
    tags: pullup

 doc/admin/conf_ldap.rst |    9 ++++++---
 doc/admin/lockout.rst   |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/admin/conf_ldap.rst b/doc/admin/conf_ldap.rst
index c8237d6..6443f46 100644
--- a/doc/admin/conf_ldap.rst
+++ b/doc/admin/conf_ldap.rst
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ Configuring Kerberos with OpenLDAP back-end
     container.
 
  5. Configure the LDAP server ACLs to enable the KDC and kadmin server
-    DNs to read and write the Kerberos data.
+    DNs to read and write the Kerberos data.  If
+    **disable_last_success** and **disable_lockout** are both set to
+    true in the :ref:`dbmodules` subsection for the realm, then the
+    KDC DN only requires read access to the Kerberos data.
 
     Sample access control information::
 
@@ -67,13 +70,13 @@ Configuring Kerberos with OpenLDAP back-end
 
        # Providing access to realm container
        access to dn.subtree= "cn=EXAMPLE.COM,cn=krbcontainer,dc=example,dc=com"
-           by dn.exact="cn=kdc-service,dc=example,dc=com" read
+           by dn.exact="cn=kdc-service,dc=example,dc=com" write
            by dn.exact="cn=adm-service,dc=example,dc=com" write
            by * none
 
        # Providing access to principals, if not underneath realm container
        access to dn.subtree= "ou=users,dc=example,dc=com"
-           by dn.exact="cn=kdc-service,dc=example,dc=com" read
+           by dn.exact="cn=kdc-service,dc=example,dc=com" write
            by dn.exact="cn=adm-service,dc=example,dc=com" write
            by * none
 
diff --git a/doc/admin/lockout.rst b/doc/admin/lockout.rst
index 2893942..d262663 100644
--- a/doc/admin/lockout.rst
+++ b/doc/admin/lockout.rst
@@ -138,3 +138,13 @@ have the largest positive impact on performance, and will still allow
 account lockout policies to operate.  However, it will make it
 impossible to observe the last successful authentication time with
 kadmin.
+
+
+KDC setup and account lockout
+-----------------------------
+
+To update the account lockout state on principals, the KDC must be
+able to write to the principal database.  For the DB2 module, no
+special setup is required.  For the LDAP module, the KDC DN must be
+granted write access to the principal objects.  If the KDC DN has only
+read access, account lockout will not function.


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