Using Smartcard with PK-INIT does not respond

[Loren M. Lang]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 08:46 -0500, Kevin Coffman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Loren M. Lang <lorenl at north-winds.org> wrote:
> > I am trying to enable smartcard logins to a MIT Kerberos domain using
> > the recent PK-INIT preauth plugin.  I am using Ubuntu 8.10 with it's
> > stock Kerberos 1.6.4 packages except for pkinit.so recompiled with
> > -DDEBUG.  I have a server certificate installed on the KDC with the
> > extended key usage id_pkinit_KPKdc and an appropriate subjectAltName.
> > There is one intermediate certificate between it and the root CA.
> > Client certificates were generated similarly only with the
> > id_pkinit_KPClientAuth key usage and have two intermediates between it
> > and the same root CA.  The client certificates are installed on a smart
> > card using opensc and are also enabled for the clientAuth key usage for
> > SSL client authentication.  I also have intermediate CAs and the root CA
> > installed on the smart card as well.  Firefox is able to see the smart
> > card including all intermediates and root CAs and is able to use it to
> > authenticate against a SSL website.  Running kinit with debugging output
> > I was able see that is was complaining that the smart card had four
> > matching certs.  It did not filter out certificates missing the
> > appropriable key usages or missing subjectAltName, maybe that's typical.
> > I setup a pkinit_cert_match to filter out the other certificates and now
> > kinit reports finding exactly one match, but bails out later due to
> > missing intermediate certificates so I setup pkinit_pool to point
> > to /etc/ssl/certs with appropriate certificates.  It did not seem to use
> > the intermediates already on the smart card, is this normal?
> 
> Normal is subjective ;-)   There is no code to deal with intermediates
> or root CAs that might be found on the smartcard.

Bad choice of words, I meant, how MIT's PK-INIT code is supposed to
behave.  I was assuming that this functionality was supported by
OpenSSL/OpenSC and not MIT specifically.

> 
> > Now kinit
> > was complaining about some broken symlinks that exist
> > under /etc/ssl/certs and it bails out.  Shouldn't these just be ignored?
> 
> I thought anything that wasn't a cert was ignored w/o bailing, but
> this might have been missed.
> 
> > This symlinks point to missing certificates that have nothing to do with
> > the pki infrastructure I am using, but once I moved the symlinks out of
> > the way, kinit continued and finally sent out an AS-REQ with the PK-INIT
> > preauth data, but received no response.  According to Wireshark,
> > following the initial AS-REQ with no preauth, the server responds with a
> > NEEDED_PREAUTH error listing six preauth types including PA-PK-AS-REQ
> > and PA-PK-AS-REP.  The client then sends a single IP fragment response.
> > The fragment has a payload of 1480 bytes with flag more fragments, but
> > no further fragments are sent.  I have no firewall rules installed and
> > am at a loss as to why there are no more fragments.
> 
> I'm not sure what might be happening here.  This would just be a
> work-around, but is it possible for you to try using TCP rather than
> UDP?

I enabled TCP support on my KDCs and netstat confirms they are listening
on them.  I tried setting udp_preference_limit to 1480, 1000, and 50,
but kinit never uses TCP.  I put udp_preference_limit both at the very
beginning and very end of my libdefaults section in krb5.conf and even
tried using copy/paste to double check that I typed it correctly.

Also, kdc_tcp_ports is not documented in my kdc.conf man page.  I had to
look in the info pages for it.

> 
> K.C.
> 
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Loren M. Lang
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