[krbdev.mit.edu #7174] multi-hop cross-realm w/o capaths sends request to wrong kdc

[Chaskiel Grundman via RT]

I have an environment with two AD domains (in one forest) and a
kerberos realm, recently upgraded to a recent heimdal. As part of that
migration, the trust between AD and the kerberos realm was redone.
Previously, both the root domain and the domain that all the
users/resources are in had trusts, but now only the root AD domain has
a trust. The heimdal kdcs have [capaths] configured and properly give
out realm referrals. The AD servers do not.


Lets call the kerberos realm KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM, and the AD domains
AD.EXAMPLE.COM and REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM. These names _do_ reflect
the domain hierarchy relationship correctly. I only changed the
individual labels.

After the change, mit krb5 1.9 (1.9.1ish on ubuntu 11.10), cannot get
tickets on behalf of user at REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM for services in
KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM:

% aklog -d kerberos.example.com
Note: Operation is performed on cell REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM
Authenticating to cell kerberos.example.com (server XXXX.kerberos.example.com).
Trying to authenticate to user's realm REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM.
Getting tickets: afs/kerberos.example.com at REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM
We've deduced that we need to authenticate to realm KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM.
Getting tickets: afs/kerberos.example.com at KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM
Getting tickets: afs/kerberos.example.com at KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM
Kerberos error code returned by get_cred : -1765328316

That is KRB5KDC_ERR_WRONG_REALM

Setting KRB5_TRACE reveals the following:
[27580] 1339700735.363748: Requesting TGT
krbtgt/KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM at REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM using TGT
krbtgt/AD.EXAMPLE.COM at REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM
[27580] 1339700735.363759: Generated subkey for TGS request: rc4-hmac/AB6E
[27580] 1339700735.363772: etypes requested in TGS request:
aes256-cts, aes128-cts, des3-cbc-sha1, rc4-hmac, des-cbc-crc, des,
des-cbc-md4
[27580] 1339700735.363839: Sending request (1737 bytes) to AD.EXAMPLE.COM
[27580] 1339700735.369349: Initiating TCP connection to stream 192.168.20.8:88
[27580] 1339700735.371149: Sending TCP request to stream 192.168.20.8:88
[27580] 1339700735.372676: Received answer from stream 192.168.20.8:88
[27580] 1339700735.374530: Response was not from master KDC
[27580] 1339700735.374547: TGS request result: -1765328316/Realm not
local to KDC

The library seems to be mixing up the realms, asking for an
@REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM ticket from the @AD.EXAMPLE.COM kdc.

If I add some capaths to the client's krb5.conf, the problem does not
occur, but I'd really rather not have to do that everywhere. an mit
krb5 1.6 client (RHEL5) works without the capaths.
[capaths]
REALDOMAIN.AD.EXAMPLE.COM = {
   KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM = AD.EXAMPLE.COM
   AD.EXAMPLE.COM = .
}