[WHATSNEW] Samba AD with MIT Kerberos + Version change

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue May 2 16:49:28 UTC 2017


On Tue, 02 May 2017 18:33:26 +0200
Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 2 May 2017 18:28:23 CEST Rowland Penny wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 May 2017 18:01:01 +0200
> > 
> > Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org> wrote:
> > > The MIT library (kinit) needs to find the KDC. It does this via
> > > DNS service lookup. Samba has its own DNS server so I think your
> > > DNS server configured in /etc/resolv.confis not 127.0.0.1 so it
> > > can't find the KDC.
> > 
> > I had the computers IP as the nameserver in resolv.conf, chenging
> > it to 127.0.0.1 didn't help.
> 
> Then it should work if you create the kdc.conf correctly. See below.
> 
> > 
> > > The other option is that in /etc/krb5.conf you specify the kdc ip
> > > address for the realm.
> > 
> > To save me time trying to find out how to do this, can you tell me
> > how ?
> > 
> > > > Am I now supposed to start the MIT kdc ?
> > > 
> > > Nope.
> > 
> > OK, I will give up trying to ;-)
> > 
> > > I've provisioned the AD DC with samba-tool which
> > > created /var/kerberos/ krb5kdc/kdc.conf for me. It looks like your
> > > system has a different kdc.conf. So you can create it at a special
> > > location during provision and set it with the 'mit kdc config'
> > > options.
> > 
> > I have '/etc/krb5kdc/kdc.conf' , which contains:
> > 
> > [kdcdefaults]
> >     kdc_ports = 750,88
> > 
> > [realms]
> >     TEST.TLD = {
> >         database_name = /var/lib/krb5kdc/principal
> >         admin_keytab = FILE:/etc/krb5kdc/kadm5.keytab
> >         acl_file = /etc/krb5kdc/kadm5.acl
> >         key_stash_file = /etc/krb5kdc/stash
> >         kdc_ports = 750,88
> >         max_life = 10h 0m 0s
> >         max_renewable_life = 7d 0h 0m 0s
> >         master_key_type = des3-hmac-sha1
> >         #supported_enctypes = aes256-cts:normal aes128-cts:normal
> >         default_principal_flags = +preauth
> >     }
> > 
> > Do I need all of that, or only some of it, or do I need to add
> > something to it ?
> > 
> > I also take it that I need to provision again, but this time add
> > '--kdc-config-dir=/etc/krb5kdc/kdc.conf'
> 
> Every distro has a different default locaction for the kdc.conf. I've
> added support for Fedora and openSUSE. So we might want do add more
> of them. Not sure if we really can but that's why there is
> --kdc-config-dir
> 
> 
> However to get it working use:
> 
> samba-tool domain provision --kdc-config-dir=/etc/krb5kdc/
> 
> 
> That should create it at the correct location.
> 
> 
> 
> 	Andreas

OK, I will give it a try ;-)

Thanks for the help.

Rowland



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