problem sending initial data to slave Kerberos server

Tom Yu tlyu at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 29 17:44:46 EST 2014


Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> writes:

> My guess is that the failure is coming from rd_safe or rd_priv, since
> rd_req can't produce an AP_ERR_BAD_INTEGRITY error at this point (it
> produces AP_WRONG_PRINC instead).  But I'm not sure what would cause a
> decryption or checksum failure for a KRB-SAFE or KRB-PRIV message, to be
> honest.  A NAT between master and slave could cause an AP_ERR_BADADDR
> error, but we're not seeing that.

I'm fairly sure it's coming from rd_req (via recvauth) in the kpropd.
The "signalled from server" text from kprop that accompanies "during
sendauth" only happens if there's a non-generic error code in the
KRB-ERROR from the server's recvauth.

> The fact that you need host/slave and host/slave.rutgers.edu principals
> is troubling, but is most likely just a confounding variable, not the
> cause of this particular problem.

That might depend on the krb5 version on the slave.


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