AllowedWorkstationNames and Krb5 -------------------------------- Microsoft uses the clientAddresses *multiple value* field in the krb5 protocol (particularly the AS_REQ) to communicate it's netbios name. This is (my guess) to permit the userWorkstations field to work. The KDC I imagine checks the netbios address against this value, in the same way that the Samba server does this. The checking of this implies a little of the next question: Is a DAL the layer we need? --------------------------- Looking at what we need to pass around, I start to seriously wonder if the DAL is even the right layer - we seem to want to create an account authorization abstraction layer - is this account permitted to login to this computer, at this time? This information in AD is much richer than the Heimdal HDB, and it seems to make sense to do AD-specific access control checks in an AD-specific layer, not in the back-end agnostic server. Because the DAL only reads in the principalName as the key, it has trouble performing access control decisions on things other than the name. I'll be very interested if the DAL really works for eDirectory too. Perhaps all we need to do is add in the same kludges as we have in Samba 3.0 for eDirectory. Hmm... That said, the current layer provides us with a very good start, and any redefinition would occour from that basis. GSSAPI layer requirements ------------------------- Welcome to the wonderful world of canonicalisation The MIT GSSAPI libs do not support kinit returning a different realm to what the client asked for, even just in case differences. Heimdal has the same problem, and this applies to the krb5 layer, not just gssapi. We need to test if the canonicalisation is controlled by the KDCOption flags, windows always sends the Canonicalize flags Old Clients (samba3 and HPUX clients) uses 'selfmade' gssapi/krb5 for using it in the CIFS session setup. Because they use krb5_mk_req() they get a chksum field depending on the encryption type, but that's wrong for GSSAPI (see rfc 1964 section 1.1.1). The Cheksum type 8003 should be used in the Authenticator of the AP-REQ! That allows the channel bindings, the GCC_C_* req_flags and optional delegation tickets to be passed from the client to the server. Hower windows doesn't seems to care about if the checksum is of the wrong type, for CIFS SessionSetups, it seems that the req_flags are just set to 0. So this can't work for LDAP connections with sign or seal, or for any DCERPC connection. So we need to also support old clients! Principal Names, long and short names ------------------------------------- As far as servicePrincipalNames are concerned, these are not canonicalised, except as regards the realm in the reply. That is, the client gets back the principal it asked for, with the realm portion 'fixed' to uppercase, long form. The short name of the realm seems to be accepted for at least AS_REQ operations, but because the server performs canonicalisation, this causes pain for current client libraries. The canonicalisation of names matters not only for the KDC, but also for code that has to deal with keytabs. HOST/ Aliases ------------- There is another post somewhere (ref lost for the moment) that details where in active directory the list of stored aliases for HOST/ is. This should be read, parsed and used to allow any of these requests to use the HOST/ key. For example, this is how HTTP/, DNS/ and CIFS/ can use HOST/ without any explicit entry. Jean-Baptiste.Marchand@hsc.fr reminds me: > This is the SPNMappings attribute in Active Directory: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/a_spnmappings.asp We implement this in hdb-ldb. Returned Salt for PreAuthentication ----------------------------------- When the server replies for 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 probably the kerberos standard salt, kept in the 'Key'. The standard generation rules are found in a Mail from Luke Howard dated 10 Nov 2004: From: Luke Howard Message-Id: <200411100231.iAA2VLUW006101@au.padl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Organization: PADL Software Pty Ltd To: lukeh@padl.com Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:31:21 +1100 Versions: dmail (bsd44) 2.6d/makemail 2.10 Cc: huaraz@moeller.plus.com, samba-technical@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Samba-3.0.7-1.3E Active Directory Issues X-BeenThere: samba-technical@lists.samba.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: lukeh@padl.com 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: Type of account Principal for Salting ======================================================================== Computer Account host/.realm@REALM User Account Without UPN @REALM User Account With 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 -- 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. State Machine safety -------------------- Samba is 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 mean thread safe, and an application could be thread safe, but not state machine safe (if it instead used thread-local variables). 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). Heimdal has this 'state machine safety' in parts, and we have modified the lorikeet branch to improve this behviour, when using a new, non-standard API. 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. The modification that has added most to 'state machine safety' of GSSAPI is the addition of the gsskrb5_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. At a more theoritical level (simply counting static and global variables) Heimdal is not state machine safe for the GSSAPI layer. The Krb5 layer alone is much closer, as far as I can tell, blocking excepted. . 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. GSSAPI and Kerberos extensions ------------------------------ This is a general list of the other extensions we have made to / need from the kerberos libraries - DCE_STYLE - gsskrb5_get_initiator_subkey() (return the exact key that Samba3 has always asked for. gsskrb5_get_subkey() might do what we need anyway) - gsskrb5_acquire_creds() (takes keytab and/or ccache as input parameters, see keytab and state machine discussion) - 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-IFRELEVENT) - gsskrb5_wrap_size (find out how big the wrapped packet will be, given input length). Keytab requirements ------------------- Because windows machine account handling is very different to the tranditional 'MIT' keytab operation. This starts when we look at the basis of the secrets handling: Traditional 'MIT' behaviour is to use a keytab, continaing salted key data, extracted from the KDC. (In this modal, there is no 'service password', instead the keys are often simply application of random bytes). Heimdal also implements this behaviour. The windows modal is very different - instead of sharing a keytab with each member server, a password is stored for the whole machine. The password is set with non-kerberos mechanisms (particularly SAMR, a DCE-RPC service) and when interacting on a kerberos basis, the password is salted by the client. (That is, no salt infromation appears to be convayed from the KDC to the member). In dealing with this modal, the traditional file keytab seems outmoded, because it is not the primary source of the keys, and as such we have replaced it with an IN-MEMORY keytab. This avoids Samba4 needing to deal with system files for it's internal operation. (We will however forward-port parts of Samba3's net ads keytab, for the benifit of other applications). When dealing with a windows KDC, the behaviour regarding case sensitivity and canonacolisation must be accomidated. This means that an incoming request to a member server may have a wide variety of service principal names. These include: machine$@REALM (samba clients) HOST/foo.bar@realm (win2k clients) HOST/foo@realm (win2k clients, using netbios) cifs/foo.bar@realm (winxp clients) cifs/foo@realm (winxp clients, using netbios) as well as all case variations on the above. Because that all got 'too hard' to put into a real keytab (and because we still wanted to supply a keytab to the GSSAPI code), we use in-memory keytabs, and specify the target name. Extra Heimdal functions used ---------------------------- (an attempt to list some of the Heimdal-specific functions I know we use) krb5_free_keyblock_contents() also a raft of prinicpal manipulation functions: Prncipal Manipulation --------------------- Samba makes extensive use of the principal manipulation functions in Heimdal, including the known structure behind krb_principal and krb5_realm (a char *). 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-IFRELEVENT container. KDC Extensions -------------- We have modified Heimdal's 'hdb' interface to specify the 'type' of Principal being requested. This allows us to correctly behave with the different 'classes' of Principal name. We currently define 2 classes: - client (kinit) - server (tgt) I also now specify the kerberos principal as an explict parameter, not an in/out value on the entry itself. Inside hdb-ldb, we add krbtgt as a special class of principal, because of particular special-case backend requirements. 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. The interface we have defined for libkdc allow 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. Using our socket lib -------------------- An important detail in the use of libkdc is that we use our own socket lib. This allows the KDC code to be as portable as the rest of samba (this cuts both ways), but far more importantly it ensures a consistancy in the handling of requests, binding to sockets etc. To handle TCP, we will use of our socket layer in much the same way as we deal with TCP for CIFS. Tridge has promised this generalisation. For the client, we 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). Kerberos logging support ------------------------ Samba now (optionally in the main code, required for the KDC) uses the krb5_log_facility from Heimdal. This allows us to redirect the warnings and status from the KDC (and client/server kerberos code) to Samba's DEBUG() system. Similarly important is the Heimdal-specific krb5_get_error_string() function, which does a lot to reduce the 'administrator pain' level, by providing specific, english text-string error messages instead of just error code translations. Short name rules ---------------- Samba is highly likely to be misconfigured, in many weird and interesting ways. As such, 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. Kerberos TODO ============= (Feel free to contribute to any of these tasks, or ask abartlet@samba.org about them). Gssmonger --------- Microsoft has released a testsuite called gssmonger, which tests interop. We should compile it against lorikeet-heimdal, MIT and see if we can build a 'Samba4' server for it. PAC Correctness --------------- We need to put the PAC into the TGT, not just the service ticket. Forwarded tickets ----------------- We need to extract forwarded tickets from the GSSAPI layer, and put them into the credentials. We can then use them for proxy work. Access Control -------------- We need to get (either if PADL publishes their patch, or write our own) access control hooks in the Heimdal KDC. We need to lockout accounts, and perform other controls. Kpasswd server -------------- I have a partial kpasswd server which needs finishing, and a we need a client testsuite written, either via the krb5 API or directly against GENSEC and the ASN.1 routines.