kadm5.acl rights for foreign principals

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
Tue Mar 12 14:47:10 EST 2002


On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:36:26PM -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >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.
> 
> I don't even think this is a GSSAPI issue.  I mean, you can't do cross-realm
> unless you're doing a TGS_REQ, and you're prohibited from using a TGS_REQ
> to get a kadmin/admin ticket.  You couldn't fix this even with raw Kerberos.

Yes, of course, but I still find the hack of enabling DISALLOW_TGT_BASED
for kadmin/admin, well, hackish. I'd like GSS acceptors to be able to
set such a policy directly.

There is no way to get initial x-realm creds though. That's just the way
it is.

> --Ken


Cheers,

Nico
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