ksu / cross-realm

Benoit PLESSIS benoit.plessis at powerboutique.com
Thu Nov 7 06:36:19 EST 2019


Ok, sorry for the noise, it seems to be related to really old distro
packages in fact

On recently-ish release it work as expected

On 07/11/2019 10:55, Benoit PLESSIS wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having some unexpected difficulties with ksu in a multi-realm
> environment.
>
> With user1 at REALM1 and server.domain at REALM1 everything is working flawlessly:
>
>     ssh user1 at server.domain from user1 at REALM1
>     ssh user2 at server.domain from user1 at REALM1 (with appropriate .k5login)
>     user1 at server.domain> ksu user2
>
> With user1 at REALM2 and server at REALM1 the ksu fail:
>
>     ssh user1 at server.domain from user1 at REALM2 => ok
>     ssh user2 at server.domain from user1 at REALM2 => ok
>     user1 at server.domain> ksu user2             => Server not found in
> Kerberos database
>
> Apparently in the second case ksu try to require a TGS in the form of
> server at REALM2 which doesn't exist indeed
>
> Any idea why ?
>
> krb5.conf:
>
> [libdefaults]
>     default_realm = REALM1
>     kdc_timesync = 1
>     ccache_type = 4
>     forwardable = true
>     proxiable = true
> [realms]
> REALM1 = {
>     kdc = ...
>     }
> REALM2 = {
>     kdc = ...
>     }
>
> [domain_realm]
>     domain = REALM1
>
> [capaths]
>         REALM1 = { REALM2 = . }
>         REALM2 = { REALM1 = . }
>
>




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