Does the KDC provided by MicroSoft AD server work well with client API provided by MIT?

Jeff White jaw171 at pitt.edu
Wed Dec 26 16:38:26 EST 2012


On 12/26/2012 03:00 PM, Elia Pinto wrote:
> Samba could create keytab, service principal on windows ad
>
> best
>
> 2012/12/26, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>:
>> shuaijie wang <wangshuaijie at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Currently I have this requirements:
>>> 1. We use Microsoft Active Directory.
>>> 2. We have some client programs that build on top of krb5 libs provided
>>> by
>>> MIT.
>>> I want to ask if these client programs can work well with KDC server
>>> bundled with AD(That is, if these clients can apply TGT, renew TGT, run
>>> ktadd.... as if it is talking with MIT KDC server)?
>> All the normal Kerberos protocol operations will work fine.  kpasswd
>> should also work fine.  Nothing related to the kadmin protocol (in other
>> words, anything that you would run the kadmin client to do) will work.
>> You'll need to use other tools (either Microsoft's native tools or
>> third-party tools for UNIX that work with AD) to do things like create
>> keytabs.
>>
>> --
>> Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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Some applications have issues dealing with Microsoft's PAG they throw 
into tickets though you can disable PAG on a per-user basis. We did that 
for OpenAFS and Cyrus IMAP's service principals due to problems we were 
having.


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