Project Review: kinit -C
Luke Howard
lukeh at padl.com
Tue Sep 14 15:34:17 EDT 2010
> The administrator of a Kerberos database has access to all user keys
> within that database. This is sufficient to impersonate any user.
> Today, no convenient user interface is provided for logging in as a
> given user without changing that user's passowrd. This project proposes
> to add a -c (cheat) option to kinit. If this option is supplied, then
> the key will be extracted from the database rather than prompting for a
> password. This option requires that kinit be run on a KDC with read
> access to the Kerberos database and stash file.
Um, can't we use S4U2Self for this? Or am I missing something very obvious?
-- Luke
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