KEYRING:persistent and ssh

Tina Harriott tina.harriott.math at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 09:20:11 EDT 2016


On 16 September 2016 at 16:02, t Seeger <tseegerkrb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have a little problem with the 'KRB5CCNAME' environment variable. I set
> the default_ccache_name to KEYRING:persistent:%{uid} but if i login it is
> set to "file:/tmp/krb5cc_${uid}_XXXXXXXXXX" cause ssh sets the KRB5CCNAME
> to file:/tmp/krb5cc_${uid}_XXXXXXXXXX...
> I found a workaround with adding "unset KRB5CCNAME" to /etc/bash.bashrc but
> this is not very nice.
> Did anyone had a similar problem and found a solution?
>
> Many thanks in advance and best regards
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FYI KEYRING: will be removed in future versions of Linux kernel
because of the ongoing design defects.
Also, KEYRING is not secure, under certain scenarios (DOCKER&et al)
unrelated users/uids can obtain the secure data.

Tina
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