that interop mess: ldap, samba, kerberos

Turbo Fredriksson turbo at bayour.com
Mon Nov 21 02:20:34 EST 2005


Quoting "rektide" <rektide at gmail.com>:

> Is it still mainly all about having {KERBEROS}name at REALM.COM in
> userPassword?

Nowadays it's {SASL}, not {KERBEROS}.

> I noticed Turbo's guide never gives LDAP a keytab entry.  His setup
> didnt require LDAP to do any writing to kerberos, so it was
> unnecessary.  Is this still the case?

Since I've separated AUTHENTICATION and AUTHORIZATION, there's no need
for an LDAP/slapd keytab...

Passwords is in Kerberos (AUTHENTICATION) and information is in LDAP
(AUTHORIZATION). I didn't want to put the passwords in the LDAP backend,
because that would create a circular dependency which I didn't want (I
have to many of those anyway :).

> Of note, I do plan on running the KX509 / KCA setup off this at some
> point in the not too distant future.  I'm running Heimdal and OpenLDAP
> 2.3.

Only Heimdal can have it's password database in LDAP. I'm still running
MIT Kerberos V and have no intention to change. The MIT version works
fine for me.


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