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Re: Is a keytab file encrypted?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Altman)
Fri Jul 21 12:27:56 2017

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On 7/21/2017 11:13 AM, Charles Hedrick wrote:
> The argument makes sense.
>=20
> However I am disturbed by the fact that a keytab can be used anywhere. =
If someone manages to become root on one machine, I=E2=80=99d like them n=
ot to be able to do things on other machines. I=E2=80=99m in an environme=
nt where we have systems administered by users, and unattended public wor=
kstations.
>=20
> That makes me unwilling to tell users to create key tables for cron job=
s.

Sites have implemented a wide variety of approaches to authenticating
cron jobs.  The cron process is specific to a host and is not the user.
As such some sites provide tooling that issues host specific principals
for such use with cron:

  user/cron/hostname@REALM

is a common format.  It is then up to the service receiving such a
principal to ensure that the authenticating client is in fact connecting
from the specified host.  Authorization rules can be applied as desired
to either grant specific permissions to

  user/cron/hostname@REALM
  user/cron/*@REALM
  user/*/*@REALM

with appropriate name folding.

Jeffrey Altman




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