gssapi auth, and multihomed multinamed hosts

Douglas E. Engert deengert at anl.gov
Wed Jun 6 12:39:43 EDT 2007



Edward Irvine wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have a Solaris 10 server with two ip addresses: "fixed.example.com" 
> and "float.example.com". The latter is an IP address that the server 
> sometimes assumes as part of its role in a high-availability cluster.
> 
> I have compiled my own openssh+gssapi version of sshd, and have got ssh 
> single-sign-on working fine (both windows secureCRT, a patched version 
> of Putty, and also the unix openssh clients) . So far so good.

Whose version of gssapi/Kerberos? Solaris? MIT? Heimdal?

Does the openssh pass a host name option to gss_acquire_cred?
If so it is forcing the principal name it is expecting.

> 
> It is now time to get gssapi auth to working with the 
> "float.example.com" address.
> 
> Can I expect to just add the keytab for "float.example.com" into 
> /etc/krb5.keytab and expect everything to be OK?
> 
> Thanks
> Eddie
> 
> 
> 
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