kadm5.acl rights for foreign principals

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:25:38PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >Since we have a multi-realm KDC and in real life the same
> >people will manage those realms, I'd like to give permissions
> >to the same principal and if possible I wouldn't like
> >create user/admin at REALM1, user/admin at REALM2. I just want to
> >insert a entry for user/admin at REALM1 in kadm5.acl file
> >for each domain. 
> 
> Unfortunately ... because kadmin/admin is set to only allow AS_REQ based
> requests (which you don't want to change, trust me) and there's no way
> to do cross-realm without a TGS-based request, then you're stuck.  You can't
> do what you want.

If only GSS-API had a concept of "initial" credentials so that acceptors
could request initial credentials. But that would necessitate a
gss_acquire_cred() API that could handle user prompting.

Sigh.

> --Ken


Cheers,

Nico
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