Joining a multiple realm AD environment

[Chris Penney]

On 5/18/07, Douglas E. Engert <deengert at anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Chris Penney wrote:
> >
> > Ah!  I see.  I used the pam_krb5 that Douglas noted and the pam config
> > lines you noted and it works basically as intended.
> >
> > Do you still have to do this even if you add the system to AD via a
> > "User" account?
>
> Microsoft used a mis-leading term when they said to add the machine as
> a "user".  You are adding a service principal for the machine into a
> realm. With AD that also means it needs an account, which looks like
> a "user" account, but in Kerberos terms has nothing to do with the user.
>
> So each user must be registered with a principal and (AD account), and
> each service must be registered with a principal and its own AD account).
>
> If you have cross realm setup then each user only needs to be in one realm,
> and each service only needs to be in one realm.
>
> You did not indicate that you have cross realm set up. i.e. the ADs have
> some cross domain trust.  But if it works as intended, then it must.
> A klist would show an extra TGT like krbtgt/LOC1.DOM.COM at LOC2.DOM.COM

Yes, LOC1 and LOC2 trust each other, though I'm not clear that I'm
leveraging that.  When I say working as intended it's probably
incorrect.  I just mean that if I have an entry in the pam config file
for each realm all users can login simply because pam trys user at LOC1
then user at LOC2, etc.

Is this a normal way of handing this?  Is setting up .k5login with
user at LOCx the best way to avoid iterating through all the realms?

    Chris