[91173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best practices inquiry: tracking SSH host keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sandy@tislabs.com)
Fri Jul 7 13:31:25 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:27:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: sandy@tislabs.com
To: nanog@nanog.org
Cc: sandy@tislabs.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>If a deployed kerberos environment has a single point of failure then its
>been deployed poorly. Kerberos has replication mechanisms to provide
>redundancy.
This concentrates on the "what if it fails" worst case scenario of
a single point of failure.
This doesn't answer the "what if it is subverted" worst case scenario
of a single point of failure.
(Other posters have noted the requirement to lock down the kerberos
server tightly, but seemingly more with a view to keeping the server
functioning, rather than keeping its data safe from exposure and corruption.
The lock down mechanisms probably do both, but you need to keep both
views in mind.)
--Sandy
