GSSAPI Key Exchange Patch for OpenSSH 4.7p1
Henry B. Hotz
hotz at jpl.nasa.gov
Mon Oct 1 04:08:55 EDT 2007
That does sound interesting. Count me in.
On Sep 28, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> Sounds interesting. And yes, I would be interested in
> the cascading credentials delegation code. Does the
> delegation code depend on the key exchange code?
>
> What would it take to get both of these in to PuTTY?
>
>
> Simon Wilkinson wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I'm pleased to (finally) announce the availability of my GSSAPI
>> Key Exchange patch for OpenSSH 4.7p1. Whilst OpenSSH contains
>> support for doing GSSAPI user authentication, this only allows
>> the underlying security mechanism to authenticate the user to the
>> server, and continues to use SSH host keys to authenticate the
>> server to the user. For many sites who already have security
>> infrastructures such as Kerberos deployed, managing large numbers
>> of SSH host keys is an additional, unneccessary, burden. GSSAPI
>> key exchange allows the use of security mechanisms such as
>> Kerberos to authenticate the server to the user, removing the
>> need for trusted ssh host keys, and allowing the use of a single
>> security architecture.
>> This patch adds support for the RFC4462 GSSAPI key exchange
>> mechanisms to OpenSSH, along with adding some additional features
>> to the GSSAPI code that is already in the tree.
>> The patch implements:
>> *) gss-group1-sha1-*, gss-group14-sha1-* and gss-gex-sha1-*
>> key exchange mechanisms. (#1242)
>> *) Support for the null host key type (#1242)
>> *) Support for CCAPI credentials caches on Mac OS X (#1245)
>> *) Support for better error handling when an authentication
>> exchange fails due to server misconfiguration (#1244)
>> *) Support for GSSAPI connections to hosts behind a round-
>> robin load balancer (#1008)
>> *) Support for GSSAPI connections to multi-homed hosts, where
>> each interface has a unique name (#928)
>> (bugzilla.mindrot.org bug numbers are in brackets)
>> There are no code changes since the previous release.
>> As usual, the code is available from
>> http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh.html
>> I'm also interesting in hearing from people who might be
>> interested in testing some new cascading credentials delegation
>> code. When you renew your Kerberos credentials on the client,
>> this code will automatically propagate these renewed credentials
>> to the server, allowing the seamless renewal of credentials
>> across ssh sessions distributed across many different machines.
>> If you have an interest in testing this code in a non-production
>> environment, please let me know!
>> Cheers,
>> Simon.
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