[Freeipa-devel] KDC proxy implementation specs

Christian Heimes cheimes at redhat.com
Fri May 29 09:10:58 UTC 2015


On 2015-05-29 08:07, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 08:02 +0200, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> Dne 28.5.2015 v 16:48 Nathaniel McCallum napsal(a):
>>> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 16:34 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:
>>>> Jan has suggested to ipaConfigString=kdcProxyEnabled in
>>>> cn=KDC,cn=$FQDN,cn=masters,cn=ipa,cn=etc instead of
>>>> ipaConfigString=enabledService in
>>>> cn=KDCPROXY,cn=$FQDN,cn=masters,cn=ipa,cn=etc. It makes sense to 
>>>> me.
>>>> After all MS-KKDCP is just another transport for the KDC. [4]
>>>
>>> There may be a security concern here if we aren't careful. I think 
>>> I'm
>>> in favor of KDCPROXY since it is a different application.
>>
>> What concern would that be? It has been already established that KDC 
>> proxy is not a different application, but rather a subcomponent of 
>> KDC 
>> in the other thread.
> 
> Accidental exposure of something else in
> cn=KDC,cn=$FQDN,cn=masters,cn=ipa,cn=etc. My fear comes from the fact
> that in order to make this work we have to expose stuff in
> cn=KDC,cn=$FQDN,cn=masters,cn=ipa,cn=etc to apache. These kind of cross
> -domain security allowances always raises red flags for me.

I don't need read permission for all ipaConfigString attributes. In fact
search and compare for
(ipaConfigString=kdcProxyEnabled) is just about enough. Of course I have
to name the permission differently. But that is the least of my problems. :)

Your key master,
Christian

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