kprop with multiple or NATted IP address

[Jerry Shipman]

(I thought about that about 5 minutes after I sent the email — oops.)
I guess my question is: does kprop do anything other than: secrecy of the data in transmission, integrity of the transmission, kdb5_util dump/load ? Or can I really do the same thing in a cron job (or maybe 2, one on each end) without missing anything important? I guess I would lose out on the possibility of doing incremental propagation.

Thanks again,
Jerry

> On Jan 27, 2016, at 6:43 PM, Russ Allbery <eagle at eyrie.org> wrote:
> 
> Jerry Shipman <jes59 at cornell.edu> writes:
> 
>> It’s me again, who was trying to kprop through a NAT a month ago.
> 
>> Hypothetically speaking… how bad of an idea would it be to make a cron
>> job that `scp`s the database file to the slave KDC, or something like
>> that? Does the slave KDC daemon need to restart after the file is
>> updated, maybe? Or is this significantly less safe than using kprop? I
>> think I would be relying on ssh instead of kerberos for the
>> confidentiality and integrity. But I do that whenever I log into the
>> machine anyway. I think I may risk getting the file in the middle of a
>> write (so some records could be corrupted in the copy). It seems like
>> this would be a bad idea; just checking.
> 
> If you're going to use scp, I strongly recommend generating a dump with
> kdb5_util dump, scping that, and then loading it with kdb5_util load.
> That's effectively what kprop/kpropd do.
> 
> Just copying the database file runs the risk of copying a corrupt database
> because you happened to catch it in the middle of a write, as you note.
> 
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> Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>