On 10 déc. 10, at 20:57, Howard Chu wrote:
Thierry Lacoste wrote:
BTW I'd appreciate any recommandations about providing kerberos
and
LDAP authentication (with the same password) in a production
setting.
Should I use Heimdal or MIT kerberos ?
If Heimdal, is it better to use OpenLDAP as a backend for
Kerberos or
let Kerberos use its native backend?
If OpenLDAP as a backend, is it better to use {K5KEY} as the
userPassword or let smbk5pwd synchronize everything?
Read the smbk5pwd README.
I'v read it. Your answer seems to imply that I should use Heimdal
and
then OpenLDAP as it's backend.
Am I right?
It's more than just implied. The README says the code was written
for Heimdal. If you want to use smbk5pwd at all, then you must use
Heimdal.
Sorry my question was not very clear.
I wan't LDAP Simple Binds and Kerberos with the same password.
I find smbk5pwd and OpenLDAP as a Heimdal backend very appealing
but maybe there are good reasons to use another Kerberos
implementation
and/or store passwords in the Kerberos native backend (adding e.g.
SASL in the mix
to make LDAP Simple Binds use pass-through authentication), obviously
ruling out smbk5pwd.
If all of your clients can use SASL Binds, then that is the best
choice, and you can ignore smbk5pwd.
Unfortunately I have no control over the clients so I need something
transparent for them.
What I had in mind was setting {SASL}login@MY.REALM in the userPassword.
The realm would be on a KDC hosted on the same box as the LDAP server
to minimize network traffic.
It seems much less elegant than the Heimdal/OpenLDAP integration with
smbk5pwd
but (maybe) has some benefits: I can use another KDC (e.g. MIT) and
use the native kerberos backend.
My first tests are OK but as of now I have no idea about replication.
Any recommandation for the best way to have LDAP Simple Binds and
Kerberos with the same password
are much appreciated.
Do you recommend using {K5KEY} as the userPassword?
If you want LDAP Simple Binds to use the same password as Kerberos,
then yes. If not, then no.
AFAICS with smbk5pwd I have two ways to have LDAP Simple Binds and
Kerberos with the same password.
1) force use of ldappasswd to make smbk5pwd synchronize all
passwords;
2) assign {K5KEY} to the userPassword and use kpasswd to change a
password.
If I understood correctly, the second method makes the passwords
identical by construction
while the first allow passwords to desynchronize if changed without
ldappasswd.
The point of smbk5pwd is to fully synchronize, that means it works
in both directions. When configured correctly and {K5KEY} is used,
it doesn't matter whether kpasswd or ldappasswd is used, everything
stays in sync.
I noticed some differences. In particular ldappasswd updates
sambaLMPassword while kpasswd does not.