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Re: kerberos ldap/host.my.domain
Am Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:05:06 -0300
schrieb Friedrich Locke <friedrich.locke@gmail.com>:
> Hi folks,
>
> i have just installed openldap and i am facing a situation i would
> like to share with you.
>
> In OpenBSD (the OS i am using) i have the keytab file inside
> /etc/kerberosV. Its access mode is 600, its ownership is root:wheel.
> But OpenBSD specifies a user and group the slapd daemon should run as;
> the user is "u" and group "g".
> In order to get SASL/GSSAPI working i need to add to the keytab the
> principal ldap/host.my.domain. I did it; now the keytab has the
> principals host/x.y.z and ldap/x.y.z
>
> But since slapd runs as another user it is prevented from accessing
> the keytab file.
> So i thought the following possible solutions:
>
> 0) Run slapd as root
> 1) change the permission of the keytab
>
> Any of those options above makes security less secure.
> I known there should be some more approaches, but i cannot think it
> right now.
>
> How did you handle that?
Create a ldap keytab and set apropriate permissions.
-Dieter
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