Ubuntu Kerberos and Active Directory

Douglas E. Engert deengert at anl.gov
Tue Sep 12 15:26:36 EDT 2006



Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote:

> Hey guys, I did an "apt-get install libpam-krb5" which removed
> libpam-heimdal, and the problem is now gone.  (I reproduced the problem 
> in both Debian-etch and Ubuntu-dapper).  I am guessing there
> is some problem with the heimdal libs.  

> Now I can ssh to the machine using Active Directory credentials. 

What do you mean by this? Send you user/password from ssh to sshd,
and use keyboard-interactive? Or do you mean use gssapi-with-mic?

 > However, even though klist shows my ticket,

On which machine, the ssh client machine or the sshd server?

I cannot do passwordless authentication.

What do you mean by this?

> 
> I am guessing that setup is a little more involved and requires a keytab
> and adding records to the Active Directory. 

Yes you would need these for gssapi-with-mic to work.
The simple method is:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/kerbstep.mspx


  Does anyone know if this
> is correct?
> 
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