[Samba] Samba 4 AD SmartCard Authentication Problem

[Andrey Repin]

Hello Hans Schulze,

Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 1:03:25 PM, you wrote:

> Thanky you, for the Info.

> After some research, here is some further information:

> The current stable kerberos implementation make no crl verify. At this time
> only the domain member like win10 clients make these. After joining the
> domain and first login with smartcard, they try to resolve the CRL
> Distribution Points for all certs of the chain. Only one url that cannot be
> reached and the authentication fails.

> The funny thing is, they are retrieved
> and cached only once, as long as the validity of the crl is given. Should a
> new crl be issued, the clients would still have the old crl cached. Thats a problem.

You should not issue CRL with very long validity period.
Give it a few days over your routine CRL update cycle and it should work.

> This mechanics was implemented to reduce the traffic to the distribution point.

> You can check the cache with certutil on windows client, like:

> certutil –urlcache CRL

> These are my thoughts on this and I hope someone else can use them to
> better understand similar problems. I think this mechanic is a little
> security issue. But we hope that the new version will be released soon and will fix this problem.


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Best regards,
Andrey Repin