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diff --git a/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-porting-to-mit-notes.txt b/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-porting-to-mit-notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b478bb --- /dev/null +++ b/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-porting-to-mit-notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,803 @@ +Copyright Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> 2005-2009 +Copyright Donald T. Davis <don@mit.edu> 2009 + +Released under the GPLv3 +"Porting Samba4 to MIT-Krb" + + + From Idmwiki + + +IPA v3 will use a version of Samba4 built on top of MIT's Kerberos +implementation, instead of Heimdal's version of Kerberos. + +Task list summary for porting changes needed, from Andrew Bartlett: + + * Rewrite or extend the LDAP driver that MIT-KDC will use. + * MIT KDC changes: rewrite DAL, add TGS-KBAC, enable PACs,... + * Full thread-safety for MIT's library code, + * Many small changes + +Task list, without explanations (the list with explanations is in the +later sections of this document): + +Porting Samba4 to MIT-krb comprises four main chunks of work: + 1. Rewrite or extend the LDAP driver that MIT-KDC will use: + a. Our LDAP driver for the KDB needs to know how to do + Samba4's intricate canonicalization of server names, + user-names, and realm names. + b. AD-style aliases for HOST/ service names. + c. Implicit names for Win2k accounts. + d. Principal "types": client / server / krbtgs + e. Most or all of this code is in 3 source files, + ~1000 lines in all; + 2. MIT KDC changes + a. Rewrite the MIT KDC's Data-Abstraction Layer (DAL), + mostly because he MIT KDC needs to see& manipulate + more LDAP detail, on Samba4's behalf; + b. Add HBAC to the KDC's TGT-issuance, so that Samba4 + can refuse TGTs to kinit, based on time-of-day& + IP-addr constraints; + c. turn on MIT-krb 1.7's PAC handling + d. add bad-password counts, for unified account-lockouts + across all authT methods (Krb, NTLM, LDAP simple bind, + etc) + 3. Make sure MIT's library code is more fully thread-safe, + by replacing all global and static variables with context + parameters for the library routines. This may already be + done. + 4. Many small changes (~15) + a. some extensions to MIT's libkrb5& GSSAPI libraries, + including GSSAPI ticket-forwarding + b. some refitting in Samba4's use of the MIT libraries; + c. make sure Samba4's portable socket API works, + including "packet too large" errors; + d. MIT's GSSAPI code should support some legacy Samba3 + clients that present incorrectly-calculated checksums; + e. Samba4 app-server-host holds aUTF-16 PW, plus a + key bitstring; + f. in-memory-only credentials cache; + g. in-memory-only keytab (nice to have); + h. get OSS NTLM authT library (Likewise Software?); + i. special Heimdal-specific functions; + j. principal-manipulation functions; + k. special check for misconfigured Samba4 hostnames; + l. improved krb error-messages; + m. improved krb logging + n. MS GSSMonger test-suite + o. testsuite for kpasswd daemon + +0. Introduction: This document should be read alongside the Samba4 +source code, as follows: + + * For DAL and KDC requirements, please see Samba4's + source4/kdc/hdb-samba4.c in particular. This file + is an implementation against Heimdal's HDB abstraction + layer, and is the biggest part of the samba-to-krb + glue layer, so the main part of the port to MIT is + to replace hdb-samba4 with a similar glue layer + that's designed for MIT's code. + * Samba4's PAC requirements are implemeneted in + source4/kdc/pac-glue.c + * Both of the above two layers are Heimdal plugins, and + both get loaded in source4/kdc/kdc.c + * For GSSAPI requirements, see auth/gensec/gensec_gssapi.c + (the consumer of GSSAPI in Samba4) + * For Kerberos library requirements, see + auth/kerberos/krb5_init_context.c + * Samba has its own credentials system, wrapping GSS creds, + just as GSS creds wrap around krb5 creds. For the + interaction between Samba4 credential system and GSSAPI + and Kerberos, see auth/credentials/credentials_krb5. + +1. Rewrite or extend the LDAP driver that MIT-KDC will use. + + a. IPA'sLDAP driver for the KDB needs to know how to do + Samba4's intricate canonicalization of server names, + user-names, and realm names. + For hostnames& usernames, alternate names appear in + LDAP as extra values in the multivalued "principal name" + attributes: + * For a hostname, the alternate names (other than + the short name, implied from the CN), are stored in + the servicePrincipalName + * For a username, the alternate names are stored in + the userPrincipalName attribute, and can be long + email-address-like names, such as joe@microsoft.com + (see "Type 10 names," below). + GSSAPI layer requirements: Welcome to the wonderful + world of canonicalisation. The MIT Krb5 libs (including + GSSAPI) do not enable the AS to send kinit a TGT containing + a different realm-name than what the client asked for, + even in U/L case differences. Heimdal has the same problem, + and this applies to the krb5 layer too, not just GSSAPI. + There are two kinds of name-canonicalization that can + occur on Windows: + * Lower-to-upper case conversion, because Windows domain + names are usually in upper case; + * An unrecognizable subsitution of names, such as might + happen when a user requests a ticket for a NetBIOS domain + name, but gets back a ticket for the corresponging FQDN. + As developers, we should test if the AD KDC's name-canonical- + isation can be turned off with the KDCOption flags in the + AS-REQ or TGS-REQ; Windows clients always send the + Canonicalize flags as KDCOption values. + Principal Names, long and short names: + AD's KDC does not canonicalize servicePrincipalNames, except + for the realm in the KDC reply. That is, the client gets + back the principal it asked for, with the realm portion + 'fixed' to uppercase, long form. + Samba4 does some canonicalization, though Heimdal doesn't + canonicalize names itself: For hostnames and usernames, + Samba4 canonicalizes the requested name only for the LDAP + principal-lookup, but then Samba4 returns the retrieved LDAP + record with the request's original, uncanonicalized hostname + replacing the canonicalized name that actually was found. + Usernames: AndrewB says that Samba4 used to return + the canonicalized username exactly as retrieved from LDAP. + The reason Samba4 treated usernames differently was that + the user needs to present his own canonicalized username + to servers, for ACL-matching. For hostnames this isn't + necessary. + Realm-names: AD seems to accept a realm's short name + in krb-requests, at least for AS_REQ operations, but the + AD KDC always performs realm-canonicalisation, which + converts the short realm-name to the canonical long form. + So, this causes pain for current krb client libraries. + Punchline: For bug-compatibility, we may need to + selectively or optionally disable the MIT-KDC's name- + canonicalization. + Application-code: + Name-canonicalisation matters not only for the KDC, but + also for app-server-code that has to deal with keytabs. + Further, with credential-caches, canonicalization can + lead to cache-misses, but then the client just asks for + new credentials for the variant server-name. This could + happen, for example, if the user asks to access the + server twice, using different variants of the server-name. + Doubled realm-names: We also need to handle type 10 + names (NT-ENTERPRISE), which are a full principal name + in the principal field, unrelated to the realm. The + principal field contains both principal& realm names, + while the realm field contains a realm name, too, possibly + different. For example, an NT-ENTERPRISE principal name + might look like: joeblow@microsoft.com@NTDEV.MICROSOFT.COM , + <--principal field-->|<----realm name--->| + Where joe@microsoft.com is the leading portion, and + NTDEV.MICROSOFT.COM is the realm. This is used for the + 'email address-like login-name' feature of AD. + b.AD-style aliases for HOST/ service names. + AD keeps a list of service-prefixed aliases for the host's + principal name. The AD KDC reads& parses this list, so + as to allow the aliased services to share the HOST/ key. + This means that every ticket-request for a service-alias + gets a service-ticket encrypted in the HOST/ key. + For example, this is how HTTP/ and CIFS/ can use the + HOST/ AD-LDAP entry, without any explicitly CIFS-prefixed + entry in the host's servicePrincipalName attribute. In the + app-server host's AD record, the servicePrincipalName says + only HOST/my.computer@MY.REALM , but the client asks + for CIFS/my.omputer@MY.REALM tickets. So, AD looks in + LDAP for both name-variants, and finds the HOST/ version, + In AD's reply, AD replaces the HOST/ prefix with CIFS/ . + We implement this in hdb-ldb. + (TBD: Andrew, is this correct?:) + List of HOST/ aliases: Samba4 currently uses only a small + set of HOST/ aliases: sPNMappings: host=ldap,dns,cifs,http . + Also, dns's presence in this list is a bug, somehow. + AD's real list has 53 entries: + sPNMappings: host=alerter,appmgmt,cisvc,clipsrv,browser, + dhcp,dnscache,replicator,eventlog,eventsystem,policyagent, + oakley,dmserver,dns,mcsvc,fax,msiserver,ias,messenger, + netlogon,netman,netdde,netddedsm,nmagent,plugplay, + protectedstorage,rasman,rpclocator,rpc,rpcss,remoteaccess, + rsvp,samss,scardsvr,scesrv,seclogon,scm,dcom,cifs,spooler, + snmp,schedule,tapisrv,trksvr,trkwks,ups,time,wins,www, + http,w3svc,iisadmin,msdtc + Domain members that expect the longer list will break in + Samba4, as of 6/09. AB says he'll try to fix this right + away. There is another post somewhere (ref lost for the + moment) that details where in active directory the long + list of stored aliases for HOST/ is. + c.Implicit names for Win2000 Accounts: AD keys its + server-records by CN or by servicePrincipalName, but a + win2k box's server-entry in LDAP doesn't include the + servicePrincipalName attribute, So, win2k server-accounts + are keyed by the CN attribute instead. Because AD's LDAP + doesn't have a servicePrincipalName for win2k servers' + entries, Samba4 has to have an implicit mapping from + host/computer.full.name and from host/computer, to the + computer's CN-keyed entry in the AD LDAP database, so to + be able to find the win2k server's host name in the KDB. + d.Principal "types": + We have modified Heimdal's 'hdb' interface to specify + the 'class' of Principal being requested. This allows + us to correctly behave with the different 'classes' of + Principal name. This is necessary because of AD's LDAP + structure, which uses very different record-structures + for user-principals, trust principals& server-principals. + We currently define 3 classes: + * client (kinit) + * server (tgt) + * krbtgt the TGS's own ldap record + Samba4 also now specifies the kerberos principal as an + explicit parameter to LDB_fetch(), not an in/out value + on the struct hdb_entry parameter itself. + e. Most or all of this LDAP driver code is in three source + files, ~1000 lines in all. These files are in + samba4/kdc : + * hdb-samba4.c (samba4-to-kdb glue-layer plugin) + * pac-glue.c (samba4's pac glue-layer plugin) + * kdc.c (loads the above two plugins). + +2. MIT KDC changes + + a.Data-Abstraction Layer (DAL): It would be good to + rewrite or circumvent the MIT KDC's DAL, mostly because + the MIT KDC needs to see& manipulate more LDAP detail, + on Samba4's behalf. AB says the MIT DAL may serve well- + enough, though, mostly as is. AB says Samba4 will need + the private pointer part of the KDC plugin API, though, + or the PAC generation won't work (see sec.2.c, below). + * MIT's DAL calls lack context parameters (as of 2006), + so presumably they rely instead on global storage, and + aren't fully thread-safe. + * In Novell's pure DAL approach, the DAL only read in the + principalName as the key, so it had trouble performing + access-control decisions on things other than the user's + name (like the addresses). + * Here's why Samba4 needs more entry detail than the DAL + provides: The AS needs to have ACL rules that will allow + a TGT to a user only when the user logs in from the + right desktop addresses, and at the right times of day. + This coarse-granularity access-control could be enforced + directly by the KDC's LDAP driver, without Samba having + to see the entry's pertinent authZ attributes. But, + there's a notable exception: a user whose TGT has + expired, and who wants to change his password, should + be allowed a restricted-use TGT that gives him access + to the kpasswd service. This ACL-logic could be buried + in the LDAP driver, in the same way as the TGS ACL could + be enforced down there, but to do so would just be even + uglier than it was to put the TGS's ACL-logic in the driver. + * Yet another complaint is that the DAL always pulls an + entire LDAP entry, non-selectively. The current DAL + is OK for Samba4's purposes, because Samba4 only reads, + and doesn't write, the KDB. But this all-or-nothing + retrieval hurts the KDC's performance, and would do so + even more, if Samba had to use the DAL to change KDB + entries. + b.Add HBAC to the KDC's TGT-issuance, so that Samba4 can + refuse TGTs to kinit, based on time-of-day& IP-address + constraints. AB asks, "Is a DAL the layer we need?" + Looking at what we need to pass around, AB doesn't think + the DAL is the right layer; what we really want instead + is to create an account-authorization abstraction layer + (e.g., is this account permitted to login to this computer, + at this time?). Samba4 ended up doing account-authorization + inside Heimdal, via a specialized KDC plugin. For a summary + description of this plugin API, see Appendix 2. + c. Turn on MIT-krb 1.7'sPAC handling. + In addition, I have added a new interface hdb_fetch_ex(), + which returns a structure including a private data-pointer, + which may be used by the windc plugin inferface functions. + The windc plugin provides the hook for the PAC. + d. Samba4 needsaccess control hooks in the Heimdal& MIT + KDCs. We need to lockout accounts (eg, after 10 failed PW- + attemps), and perform other controls. This is standard + AD behavior, that Samba4 needs to get right, whether + Heimdal or MIT-krb is doing the ticket work. + - If PADL doesn't publish their patch for this, + we'll need to write our own. + - The windc plugin proivides a function for the main + access control routines. A new windc plugin function + should be added to increment the bad password counter + on failure. + - Samba4 doesn't yet handle bad password counts (or good + password notification), so that a single policy can be + applied against all means of checking a password (NTLM, + Kerberos, LDAP Simple Bind, etc). Novell's original DAL + did not provide a way to update the PW counts information. + - Nevertheless, we know that this is very much required in + AD, because Samba3 + eDirectory goes to great lengths to + update this information. This may have been addressed in + Simo's subsequent IPA-KDC design), + * AllowedWorkstationNames and Krb5: Microsoft uses the + clientAddresses *multiple value* field in the krb5 + protocol (particularly the AS_REQ) to communicate the + client's netbios name (legacy undotted name,<14 chars) + AB guesses that this is to support the userWorkstations + field (in user's AD record). The idea is to support + client-address restrictions, as was standard in NT: + The AD authentication server probably checks the netbios + address against this userWorkstations value (BTW, the + NetLogon server does this, too). + +3. State Machine safety +when using Kerberos and GSSAPI libraries + + * Samba's client-side& app-server-side libraries are built + on a giant state machine, and as such have very different + requirements to those traditionally expressed for kerberos + and GSSAPI libraries. + * Samba requires all of the libraries it uses to be "state + machine safe" in their use of internal data. This does not + necessarily mean "thread safe," and an application could be + thread safe, but not state machine safe (if it instead used + thread-local variables). so, if MIT's libraries were made + thread-safe only by inserting spinlock() code, then the MIT + libraries aren't yet "state machine safe." + * So, what does it mean for a library to be state machine safe? + This is mostly a question of context, and how the library manages + whatever internal state machines it has. If the library uses a + context variable, passed in by the caller, which contains all + the information about the current state of the library, then it + is safe. An example of this state is the sequence number and + session keys for an ongoing encrypted session). + * The other issue affecting state machines is 'blocking' (waiting for a + read on a network socket). Samba's non-blocking I/O doesn't like + waiting for libkrb5 to go away for awhile to talk to the KDC. + * Samba4 provides a hook 'send_to_kdc', that allows Samba4 to take over the + IO handling, and run other events in the meantime. This uses a + 'nested event context' (which presents the challenges that the kerberos + library might be called again, while still in the send_to_kdc hook). + * Heimdal has this 'state machine safety' in parts, and we have modified + Samba4's lorikeet branch to improve this behaviour, when using a new, + non-standard API to tunnelling a ccache (containing a set of tickets) + through the gssapi, by temporarily casting the ccache pointer to a + gss credential pointer. This new API is Heimdal's samba4-requested + gss_krb5_import_cred() fcn; this will have to be rewritten or ported + in the MIT port. + * This tunnelling trick replaces an older scheme using the KRB5_CCACHE + environment variable to get the same job done. The tunnelling trick + enables a command-line app-client to run kinit tacitly, before running + GSSAPI for service-authentication. The tunnelling trick avoids the + more usual approach of keeping the ccache pointer in a global variable. + * [Heimdal uses a per-context variable for the 'krb5_auth_context', + which controls the ongoing encrypted connection, but does use global + variables for the ubiquitous krb5_context parameter. (No longer true, + because the krb5_context global is gone now.)] + * The modification that has added most to 'state machine safety' of + GSSAPI is the addition of the gss_krb5_acquire_creds() function. + This allows the caller to specify a keytab and ccache, for use by + the GSSAPI code. Therefore there is no need to use global variables + to communicate this information about keytab& ccache. + * At a more theoretical level (simply counting static and global + variables) Heimdal is not state machine safe for the GSSAPI layer. + (But Heimdal is now (6/09) much more nearly free of globals.) + The Krb5 layer alone is much closer, as far as I can tell, blocking + excepted. . + * As an alternate to fixing MIT Kerberos for better safety in this area, + a new design might be implemented in Samba, where blocking read/write + is made to the KDC in another (fork()ed) child process, and the results + passed back to the parent process for use in other non-blocking operations. + * To deal with blocking, we could have a fork()ed child per context, + using the 'GSSAPI export context' function to transfer + the GSSAPI state back into the main code for the wrap()/unwrap() part + of the operation. This will still hit issues of static storage (one + gss_krb5_context per process, and multiple GSSAPI encrypted sessions + at a time) but these may not matter in practice. + * This approach has long been controversial in the Samba team. + An alternate way would be to be implement E_AGAIN in libkrb5: similar + to the way to way read() works with incomplete operations. to do this + in libkrb5 would be difficult, but valuable. + * In the short-term, we deal with blocking by taking over the network + send() and recv() functions, therefore making them 'semi-async'. This + doesn't apply to DNS yet.These thread-safety context-variables will + probably present porting problems, during the MIT port. This will + probably be most of the work in the port to MIT. + This may require more thorough thread-safe-ing work on the MIT libraries. + +4. Many small changes (~15) + + a. Some extensions to MIT'slibkrb5& GSSAPI libraries, including + GSSAPI ticket-forwarding: This is a general list of the other + extensions Samba4 has made to / need from the kerberos libraries + * DCE_STYLE : Microsoft's hard-coded 3-msg Challenge/Response handshake + emulates DCE's preference for C/R. Microsoft calls this DCE_STYLE. + MIT already has this nowadays (6/09). + * gsskrb5_get_initiator_subkey() (return the exact key that Samba3 + has always asked for. gsskrb5_get_subkey() might do what we need + anyway). This routine is necessary, because in some spots, + Microsoft uses raw Kerberos keys, outside the Kerberos protocols, + as a direct input to MD5 and ARCFOUR, without using the make_priv() + or make_safe() calls, and without GSSAPI wrappings etc. + * gsskrb5_acquire_creds() (takes keytab and/or ccache as input + parameters, see keytab and state machine discussion in prev section) + * The new function to handle the PAC fully + gsskrb5_extract_authz_data_from_sec_context() + need to test that MIT's PAC-handling code checks the PAC's signature. + * gsskrb5_wrap_size (Samba still needs this one, for finding out how + big the wrapped packet will be, given input length). + b. Some refitting in Samba4's use of the MIT libraries; + c. Make sure Samba4'sportable socket API works: + * An important detail in the use of libkdc is that we use samba4's + own socket lib. This allows the KDC code to be as portable as + the rest of samba, but more importantly it ensures consistancy + in the handling of requests, binding to sockets etc. + * To handle TCP, we use of our socket layer in much the same way as + we deal with TCP for CIFS. Tridge created a generic packet handling + layer for this. + * For the client, samba4 likewise must take over the socket functions, + so that our single thread smbd will not lock up talking to itself. + (We allow processing while waiting for packets in our socket routines). + send_to_kdc() presents to its caller the samba-style socket interface, + but the MIT port will reimplement send_to_kdc(), and this routine will + use internally the same socket library that MIT-krb uses. + * The interface we have defined for libkdc allows for packet injection + into the post-socket layer, with a defined krb5_context and + kdb5_kdc_configuration structure. These effectively redirect the + kerberos warnings, logging and database calls as we require. + * Samba4 socket-library's current TCP support does not send back + 'too large' error messages if the high bit is set. This is + needed for a proposed extension mechanism (SSL-armored kinit, + by Leif Johansson<leifj@it.su.se>), but is currently unsupported + in both Heimdal and MIT. + d. MIT's GSSAPI code should support some legacy Samba3 + clients that presentincorrectly-calculated checksums. + * Old Clients (samba3 and HPUX clients) use 'selfmade' + gssapi/krb5 tokens for use in the CIFS session setup. + These hand-crafted ASN.1 packets don't follow rfc1964 + (GSSAPI) perfectly, so server-side krblib code has to + be flexible enough to accept these bent tokens. + * It turns out that Windows' GSSAPI server-side code is + sloppy about checking some GSSAPI tokens' checksums. + During initial work to implement an AD client, it was + easier to make an acceptable solution (acceptable to + Windows servers) than to correctly implement the + GSSAPI specification, particularly on top of the + (inflexible) MIT Kerberos API. It did not seem + possible to write a correct, separate GSSAPI + implementation on top of MIT Kerberos's public + krb5lib API, and at the time, the effort did not + need to extend beyond what Windows would require. + * The upshot is that old Samba3 clients send GSSAPI + tokens bearing incorrect checksums, which AD's + GSSAPI library cheerfully accepts (but accepts + the good checksums, too). Similarly, Samba4's + Heimdal krb5lib accepts these incorrect checksums. + Accordingly, if MIT's krb5lib wants to interoperate + with the old Samba3 clients, then MIT's library will + have to do the same. + * Because these old clients use krb5_mk_req() + the app-servers get a chksum field depending on the + encryption type, but that's wrong for GSSAPI (see + rfc 1964 section 1.1.1). The Checksum type 8003 + should be used in the Authenticator of the AP-REQ! + That (correct use of the 8003 type) would allow + the channel bindings, the GCC_C_* req_flags and + optional delegation tickets to be passed from the + client to the server. However windows doesn't seem + to care whether the checksum is of the wrong type, + and for CIFS SessionSetups, it seems that the + req_flags are just set to 0. This deviant checksum + can't work for LDAP connections with sign or seal, + or for any DCERPC connection, because those + connections do not require the negotiation of + GSS-Wrap paraemters (signing or sealing of whole + payloads). Note: CIFS has an independent SMB + signing mechanism, using the Kerberos key. + * For the code that handles the incorrect& correct + checksums, see heimdal/lib/gssapi/krb5/accept_sec_context.c, + lines 390-450 or so. + * This bug-compatibility is likely to be controversial + in the kerberos community, but a similar need for bug- + compatibility arose around MIT's& Heimdal's both + failing to support TGS_SUBKEYs correctly, and there + are numerous other cases. + seehttps://lists.anl.gov/pipermail/ietf-krb-wg/2009-May/007630.html + * So, MIT's krb5lib needs to also support old clients! + e. Samba4 app-server-host holds aUTF-16 PW, plus a key bitstring; + See Appendix 1, "Keytab Requirements." + f.In-memory-only credentials cache for forwarded tickets + Samba4 extracts forwarded tickets from the GSSAPI layer, + and puts them into the memory-based credentials cache. + We can then use them for proxy work. This needs to be + ported, if the MIT library doesn't do it yet. + g.In-memory-only keytab (nice to have): + Heimdal used to offer "in-memory keytabs" for servers that use + passwords. These server-side passwords were held in a Samba LDB + database called secrets.ldb . The heimdal library would fetch + the server's password from the ldb file and would construct an + in-memory keytab struct containing the password, somewhat as if + the library had read an MIT-style keytab file. Unfortunately, + only later, at recv_auth() time, would the Heimdal library convert + the server-PW into a salted-&-hashed AES key, by hashing 10,000 + times with SHA-1. Naturally, this is really too slow for recv_auth(), + which runs when an app-server authenticates a client's app-service- + request. So, nowadays, this password-based in-memory keytab is + falling into disuse. + h. Get OSSNTLM authT library: AB says Likewise software + probably will give us their freeware "NTLM for MIT-krb" + implementation. + i. Special Heimdal-specific functions; These functions didn't + exist in the MIT code, years ago, when Samba started. AB + will try to build a final list of these functions: + * krb5_free_keyblock_contents() + * + j.Principal-manipulation functions: Samba makes extensive + use of the principal manipulation functions in Heimdal, + including the known structure behind krb_principal and + krb5_realm (a char *). For example, + * krb5_parse_name_flags(smb_krb5_context->krb5_context, name, + KRB5_PRINCIPAL_PARSE_REQUIRE_REALM,&principal); + * krb5_unparse_name_flags(smb_krb5_context->krb5_context, principal, + KRB5_PRINCIPAL_UNPARSE_NO_REALM,&new_princ); + * krb5_principal_get_realm() + * krb5_principal_set_realm() + These are needed for juggling the AD variant-structures + for server names. + k. SpecialShort name rules check for misconfigured Samba4 + hostnames; Samba is highly likely to be misconfigured, in + many weird and interesting ways. So, we have a patch for + Heimdal that avoids DNS lookups on names without a "." in + them. This should avoid some delay and root server load. + (This errors need to be caught in MIT's library.) + l.Improved krb error-messages; + krb5_get_error_string(): This Heimdal-specific function + does a lot to reduce the 'administrator pain' level, by + providing specific, English text-string error messages + instead of just error code translations. (This isn't + necessary for the port, but it's more useful than MIT's + default err-handling; Make sure this works for MIT-krb) + m.Improved Kerberos logging support: + krb5_log_facility(): Samba4 now uses this Heimdal function, + which allows us to redirect the warnings and status from + the KDC (and client/server Kerberos code) to Samba's DEBUG() + system. Samba uses this logging routine optionally in the + main code, but it's required for KDC errors. + n. MSGSSMonger test-suite: Microsoft has released a krb-specific + testsuite called gssmonger, which tests interoperability. We + should compile it against lorikeet-heimdal& MIT and see if we + can build a 'Samba4' server for it. GSSMonger wasn't intended + to be Windows-specific. + o.Testsuite for kpasswd daemon: I have a partial kpasswd server + which needs finishing, and a Samba4 needs a client testsuite + written, either via the krb5 API or directly against GENSEC and + the ASN.1 routines. Samba4 likes to test failure-modes, not + just successful behavior. Currently Samba4's kpasswd only works + for Heimdal, not MIT clients. This may be due to call-ordering + constraints. + + +Appendix 1: Keytab Requirements + + Traditional 'MIT' keytab operation is very different from AD's + account-handling for application-servers: + a. Host PWs vs service-keys: + * Traditional 'MIT' behaviour is for the app-server to use a keytab + containing several named random-bitstring service-keys, created + by the KDC. An MIT-style keytab holds a different service-key + for every kerberized application-service that the server offers + to clients. Heimdal also implements this behaviour. MIT's model + doesn't use AD's UTF-16 'service password', and no salting is + necessary for service-keys, because each service-key is random + enough to withstand an exhaustive key-search attack. + * In the Windows model, the server key's construction is very + different: The app-server itself, not the KDC, generates a + random UTF-16 pseudo-textual password, and sends this password + to the KDC using SAMR, a DCE-RPC "domain-joining" protocol (but + for windows 7, see below). Then, the KDC shares this server- + password with every application service on the whole machine. + * Only when the app-server uses kerberos does the password get + salted by the member server (ie, an AD server-host). (That + is, no salt information appears to be conveyed from the AD KDC + to the member server, and the member server must use the rules + described in Luke's mail, in Appendix 3, below). The salted- + and-hashed version of the server-host's PW gets stored in the + server-host's keytab. + * Samba file-servers can have many server-names simultaneously + (kind of like web servers' software-virtual-hosting), but since + these servers are running in AD, these names can be set up to + all share the same secret key. In AD, co-located server names + almost always share a secret key like this. In samba3, this + key-sharing was optional, so some samba3 hosts' keytabs did + hold multiple keys. Samba4 abandons this traditional "old MIT" + style of keytab, and only supports one key per keytab, and + multiple server-names can use that keytab key in common. In + dealing with this model, Samba4 uses both the traditional file + keytab and an in-MEMORY keytabs. + * Pre-Windows7 AD and samba3/4 both use SAMR, an older protocol, + to jumpstart the member server's PW-sharing with AD (the "windows + domain-join process"). This PW-sharing transfers only the PW's + UTF-16 text, without any salting or hashing, so that non-krb + security mechanisms can use the same utf-16 text PW. For + Windows 7, this domain-joining uses LDAP for PW-setting. + b. Flexible server-naming + * The other big difference between AD's keytabs and MIT's is that + Windows offers a lot more flexibility about service-principals' + names. When the kerberos server-side library receives Windows-style tickets + from an app-client, MIT's krb library (or GSSAPI) must accommodate + Windows' flexibility about case-sensitivity and canonicalization. + This means that an incoming application-request to a member server + may use a wide variety of service-principal names. These include: + machine$@REALM (samba clients) + HOST/foo.bar@realm (win2k clients) + cifs/foo.bar@realm (winxp clients) + HOST/foo@realm (win2k clients, using netbios) + cifs/foo@realm (winxp clients, using netbios), + as well as all upper/lower-case variations on the above. + c. Keytabs& Name-canonicalization + * Heimdal's GSSAPI expects to to be called with a principal-name& a keytab, + possibly containing multiple principals' different keys. However, AD has + a different problem to solve, which is that the client may know the member- + server by a non-canonicalized principal name, yet AD knows the keytab + contains exactly one key, indexed by the canonical name. So, GSSAPI is + unprepared to canonicalize the server-name that the cliet requested, and + is also overprepared to do an unnecessary search through the keytab by + principal-name. So Samba's server-side GSSAPI calls have to "game" the + GSSAPI, by supplying the server's known canonical name, with the one-key + keytab. This doesn't really affect IPA's port of Samba4 to MIT-krb. + * Because the number of U/L case combinations got 'too hard' to put into + a keytab in the traditional way (with the client to specify the name), + we either pre-compute the keys into a traditional keytab or make an + in-MEMORY keytab at run time. In both cases we specify the principal + name to GSSAPI, which avoids the need to store duplicate principals. + * We use a 'private' keytab in our private dir, referenced from the + secrets.ldb by default. + +Appendix 2: KDC Plugin for Account-Authorization + +Here is how Samba4 ended up doing account-authorization in +Heimdal, via a specialized KDC plugin. This plugin helps +bridge an important gap: The user's AD record is much richer +than the Heimdal HDB format allows, so we do AD-specific +access-control checks in the plugin's AD-specific layer, +not in the DB-agnostic KDC server: + * We created a separate KDC plugin, with this API: + typedef struct + hdb_entry_ex { void *ctx; + hdb_entry entry; + void (*free_entry)(krb5_context, struct hdb_entry_ex *); + } hdb_entry_ex; + The void *ctx is a "private pointer," provided by the + 'get' method's hdb_entry_ex retval. The APIs below use + the void *ctx so as to find additional information about + the user, not contained in the hdb_entry structure. + Both the provider and the APIs below understand how to + cast the private void *ctx pointer. + typedef krb5_error_code + (*krb5plugin_windc_pac_generate)(void * krb5_context, + struct hdb_entry_ex *, + krb5_pac*); + typedef krb5_error_code + (*krb5plugin_windc_pac_verify)(void * krb5_context, + const krb5_principal, + struct hdb_entry_ex *, + struct hdb_entry_ex *, + krb5_pac *); + typedef krb5_error_code + (*krb5plugin_windc_client_access)(void * krb5_context, + struct hdb_entry_ex *, + KDC_REQ *, + krb5_data *); + The krb5_data* here is critical, so that samba's KDC can return + the right NTSTATUS code in the 'error string' returned to the + client. Otherwise, the windows client won't get the right error + message to the user (such as 'password expired' etc). The pure + Kerberos error is not enough) + typedef struct + krb5plugin_windc_ftable { int minor_version; + krb5_error_code (*init)(krb5_context, void **); + void (*fini)(void *); + krb5plugin_windc_pac_generate pac_generate; + krb5plugin_windc_pac_verify pac_verify; + krb5plugin_windc_client_access client_access; + } krb5plugin_windc_ftable; + This API has some Heimdal-specific stuff, that'll + have to change when we port this KDC plugin to MIT krb. + * 1st callback (pac_generate) creates an initial PAC from the user's AD record. + * 2nd callback (pac_verify) checks that a PAC is correctly signed, + adds additional groups (for cross-realm tickets) + and re-signs with the key of the target kerberos + service's account + * 3rd callback (client_access) performs additional access checks, such as + allowedWorkstations and account expiry. + * For example, to register this plugin, use the kdc's standard + plugin-system at Samba4's initialisation: + /* first, setup the table of callback pointers */ + /* Registar WinDC hooks */ + ret = krb5_plugin_register(krb5_context, PLUGIN_TYPE_DATA, + "windc",&windc_plugin_table); + /* once registered, the KDC will invoke the callbacks */ + /* while preparing each new ticket (TGT or app-tkt) */ + * An alternative way to register the plugin is with a + config-file that names a DSO (Dynamically Shared Object). + +Appendix 3: Samba4 stuff that doesn't need to get ported. + +Heimdal oddities +* Heimdal is built such that it should be able to serve multiple realms + at the same time. This isn't relevant for Samba's use, but it shows + up in a lot of generalisations throughout the code. +* Samba4's code originally tried internally to make it possible to use + Heimdal's multi-realms-per-KDC ability, but this was ill-conceived, + and AB has recently (6/09) ripped the last of that multi-realms + stuff out of samba4. AB says that in AD, it's not really possible + to make this work; several AD components structurally assume that + there's one realm per KDC. However, we do use this to support + canonicalization of realm-names: case variations, plus long-vs-short + variants of realm-names. No MIT porting task here, as long as MIT kdc + doesn't refuse to do some LDAP lookups (eg, alias' realm-name looks + wrong). +* Heimdal supports multiple passwords on a client account: Samba4 + seems to call hdb_next_enctype2key() in the pre-authentication + routines, to allow multiple passwords per account in krb5. + (I think this was intended to allow multiple salts). AD doesn't + support this, so the MIT port shouldn't bother with this. +Not needed anymore, because MIT's code now handles PACs fully: +* gss_krb5_copy_service_keyblock() (get the key used to actually + encrypt the ticket to the server, because the same key is used for + the PAC validation). +* gsskrb5_extract_authtime_from_sec_context (get authtime from + kerberos ticket) +* gsskrb5_extract_authz_data_from_sec_context (get authdata from + ticket, ie the PAC. Must unwrap the data if in an AD-IFRELEVANT)] +Authz data extraction +* We use krb5_ticket_get_authorization_data_type(), and expect + it to return the correct authz data, even if wrapped in an + AD-IFRELEVANT container. This doesn't need to be ported to MIT. + This should be obsoleted by MIT's new PAC code. +libkdc +* Samba4 needs to be built as a single binary (design requirement), + and this should include the KDC. Samba also (and perhaps more + importantly) needs to control the configuration environment of + the KDC. +* But, libkdc doesn't matter for IPA; Samba invokes the Heimdal kdc + as a library call, but this is just a convenience, and the MIT + port can do otherwise w/o trouble.) +Returned Salt for PreAuthentication + When the AD-KDC replies to pre-authentication, it returns the + salt, which may be in the form of a principalName that is in no + way connected with the current names. (ie, even if the + userPrincipalName and samAccountName are renamed, the old salt + is returned). + This is the kerberos standard salt, kept in the 'Key'. The + AD generation rules are found in a Mail from Luke Howard dated + 10 Nov 2004. The MIT glue layer doesn't really need to care about + these salt-handling details; the samba4 code& the LDAP backend + will conspire to make sure that MIT's KDC gets correct salts. + > + > From: Luke Howard<lukeh@padl.com> + > Organization: PADL Software Pty Ltd + > To: lukeh@padl.com + > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:31:21 +1100 + > Cc: huaraz@moeller.plus.com, samba-technical@lists.samba.org + > Subject: Re: Samba-3.0.7-1.3E Active Directory Issues + > ------- + > + > Did some more testing, it appears the behaviour has another + > explanation. It appears that the standard Kerberos password salt + > algorithm is applied in Windows 2003, just that the source principal + > name is different. + > + > Here is what I've been able to deduce from creating a bunch of + > different accounts: + > [SAM name in this mail means the AD attribute samAccountName . + > E.g., jbob for a user and jbcomputer$ for a computer.] + > + > [UPN is the AD userPrincipalName attribute. For example, jbob@mydomain.com] + > Type of account Principal for Salting + > ======================================================================== + > Computer Account host/<SAM-Name-Without-$>.realm@REALM + > User Account Without UPN<SAM-Name>@REALM + > User Account With UPN<LHS-Of-UPN>@REALM + > + > Note that if the computer account's SAM account name does not include + > the trailing '$', then the entire SAM account name is used as input to + > the salting principal. Setting a UPN for a computer account has no + > effect. + > + > It seems to me odd that the RHS of the UPN is not used in the salting + > principal. For example, a user with UPN foo@mydomain.com in the realm + > MYREALM.COM would have a salt of MYREALM.COMfoo. Perhaps this is to + > allow a user's UPN suffix to be changed without changing the salt. And + > perhaps using the UPN for salting signifies a move away SAM names and + > their associated constraints. + > + > For more information on how UPNs relate to the Kerberos protocol, + > see: + > + > http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/01dec/I-D/draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-referrals-02.txt + > + > -- Luke |