separate keytab for pam_krb5

Stefan Skoglund Stefan.Skoglund at agj.net
Sat Jan 21 14:46:01 EST 2012


I had a bit of problems unlocking the X session and after reading
other people description of the same symptom i did find the trigger for
it in my /etc/krb5.conf:
---
verify_ap_req_nofail = true
---

I dropped it and things started to 'work' again.

This is of course unsatisfactory and so i now wonder:
pam_krb5 can use an separate keytab when authenticating and if i
understands it properly that keytab should contain the 'host/...'
principal for the local host and the keytab needs to be readable by all
authenticated local users.

What is the security implications of this ?

This is of course caused by the fact that the session unlock is done by
the normal user which can't read the system's keytab.




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