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MIT implementation of Kerberos (https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/)

MIT implementation of Kerberos (https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/)

documentation can be found here : https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/

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Which kerberos flavor?

So I'm setting up a small network with all the standard stuff (files, email, etc.) and I've decided to go with a Kerberos+LDAP solution. Any ideas or recommendations on Heimdal vs. MIT? I've used MIT before, and tangentially Heimdal, but I don't…
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Automatic Kerberos Ticket Renewal (Indefinitely)

I am currently switching our environment from NIS over to Kerberos + LDAP. During this migration I've now run into the following situation. We mount our homes via NFS which obviously should also be kerberized. However since our users all login at…
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MIT Kerberos keeps asking for password when authenticating to OpenSSH

I am trying to setup a simple Kerberos environment which consists of a Kerberos server (KDC), a client machine and a server machine running an OpenSSH daemon. The client is supposed to be authenticated through Kerberos when establishing an SSH…
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How to set Openssh and Mit kerberos (from windows to linux server)?

I need to connect through openssh from windows to a linux server using a kerberos ticket. I got the bin file from: https://github.com/NoMoreFood/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v7.9-sspi Through my company login UI, I obtain the ticket using MIT…
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How to force kerberos to use in memory credential cache?

MIT Kerberos supports multiple types of credential cache to store tickets . For example, if I want to use a persistent keyring per-user in kernel memory I can add the following to krb5.conf. [libdefaults] default_ccache_name =…
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Windows - Kerberos SSO from outside the domain

I've tried to figure it out myself, but to no avail. Google offers many tutorials but I couldn't find any for the below case. We have an external cooperating employee with VPN access to our LAN and he needs to access some of our web applications.…
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Cross-Realm trust verify failed with 'netdom' command

Question 1: Am having my ActiveDirectory in Windowsserver 2012 machine - its domain name is AD-DEMO.LOCAL Kerberos admin-server is in another Ubuntu machine - its realm KERBEROS.COM Added trust in 'Active Directory Domains and…
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Single Sign On for intranet with Apache and Linux MIT Kerberos

EDIT: SOLVED! See my answer below. Greetings, I am looking for a way to do a single sign on to an intranet in the following manner: A Linux user logs on via a graphical frontend (for example, GNOME). He automatically requests a TGT for his username…
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Why the reverse DNS lookup of SPN during initial phase of Kerberos authentication?

At its base, Kerberos isn't an overly complicated protocol. I have also already successfully configured a server to accept Kerberos authentications via SPNEGO HTTP headers. I'm new in this area though, so maybe I have just overlooked…
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Use cases for kerberos credential cache type MEMORY?

One of the credential cache types offered by MIT Kerberos is MEMORY. According to the documentation it is used by kadmin. MEMORY caches are for storage of credentials that don’t need to be made available outside of the current process. For example,…
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How to change ccache type of MIT Kerberos

The MIT Kerberos Documentation lists seven different ways to store Kerberos credentials: API DIR FILE KCM KEYRING MEMORY MSLSA At the moment my Kerberos setup is storing credentials in a file in the /tmp directory. In my krb5.conf file the…
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How can I test network connectivity to a Keberos KDC (UDP/88)

How can I test network connectivity to a Keberos KDC (UDP/88)? Does Kerberos have a standard way to communicate that gives any output? HTTP for example, nc -v google.com 80 GET will dump the website nc -v smtp.gmail.com 587 ehlo…
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Is section logging in krb5.conf works on the kerberos client?

Client /etc/krb5.conf: ... [logging] default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log ... Kerberos client worked, but log files are empty... write permissions on files granted to all.
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Kerberos error while initializing kadmin interface from admin server

I updated my master key for my Kerberos 5 server following the MIT Kerberos 5 instructions. I restarted the kdc and kadmind services and used krb5-prop to push the changes to the other servers. Now I am unable to connect with kadmin from any server,…
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Known services that don't use Kerberos authentication?

I'm looking to set up a Kerberos trust between MIT Kerberos5 and Active Directory. However, it's noted in my old Kerberos book from 2003 that "there are several applications, notably Microsoft Exchange (2000 and below), that still use the older…
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