sssd-krb5 5 File Formats and Conventions sssd-krb5 the configuration file for SSSD This manual page describes the configuration of the Kerberos 5 authentication backend for sssd 8 . For a detailed syntax reference, please refer to the FILE FORMAT section of the sssd.conf 5 manual page The Kerberos 5 authentication backend contains auth and chpass providers. It must be paired with identity provider in order to function properly (for example, id_provider = ldap). Some information required by the Kerberos 5 authentication backend must be provided by the identity provider, such as the user's Kerberos Principal Name (UPN). The configuration of the identity provider should have an entry to specify the UPN. Please refer to the man page for the applicable identity provider for details on how to configure this. This backend also provides access control based on the .k5login file in the home directory of the user. See .k5login5 for more details. Please note that an empty .k5login file will deny all access to this user. To activate this feature use 'access_provider = krb5' in your sssd configuration. In the case where the UPN is not available in the identity backend sssd will construct a UPN using the format username@krb5_realm. If the auth-module krb5 is used in a SSSD domain, the following options must be used. See the sssd.conf 5 manual page, section DOMAIN SECTIONS for details on the configuration of a SSSD domain. krb5_server, krb5_backup_server (string) Specifies the comma-separated list of IP addresses or hostnames of the Kerberos servers to which SSSD should connect in the order of preference. For more information on failover and server redundancy, see the FAILOVER section. An optional port number (preceded by a colon) may be appended to the addresses or hostnames. If empty, service discovery is enabled - for more information, refer to the SERVICE DISCOVERY section. When using service discovery for KDC or kpasswd servers, SSSD first searches for DNS entries that specify _udp as the protocol and falls back to _tcp if none are found. This option was named krb5_kdcip in earlier releases of SSSD. While the legacy name is recognized for the time being, users are advised to migrate their config files to use krb5_server instead. krb5_realm (string) The name of the Kerberos realm. This option is required and must be specified. krb5_kpasswd, krb5_backup_kpasswd (string) If the change password service is not running on the KDC alternative servers can be defined here. An optional port number (preceded by a colon) may be appended to the addresses or hostnames. For more information on failover and server redundancy, see the FAILOVER section. Please note that even if there are no more kpasswd servers to try the back end is not switch to offline if authentication against the KDC is still possible. Default: Use the KDC krb5_ccachedir (string) Directory to store credential caches. All the substitution sequences of krb5_ccname_template can be used here, too, except %d and %P. If the directory does not exist it will be created. If %u, %U, %p or %h are used a private directory belonging to the user is created. Otherwise a public directory with restricted deletion flag (aka sticky bit, see chmod 1 for details) is created. Default: /tmp krb5_ccname_template (string) Location of the user's credential cache. Two credential cache types are currently supported - FILE and DIR. The cache can either be specified as TYPE:RESIDUAL, or an absolute path, which implies the FILE type. In the template the following sequences are substituted: %u login name %U login UID %p principal name %r realm name %h home directory %d value of krb5ccache_dir %P the process ID of the sssd client %% a literal '%' If the template ends with 'XXXXXX' mkstemp(3) is used to create a unique filename in a safe way. Default: FILE:%d/krb5cc_%U_XXXXXX krb5_auth_timeout (integer) Timeout in seconds after an online authentication or change password request is aborted. If possible the authentication request is continued offline. Default: 15 krb5_validate (boolean) Verify with the help of krb5_keytab that the TGT obtained has not been spoofed. Default: false krb5_keytab (string) The location of the keytab to use when validating credentials obtained from KDCs. Default: /etc/krb5.keytab krb5_store_password_if_offline (boolean) Store the password of the user if the provider is offline and use it to request a TGT when the provider gets online again. Please note that this feature currently only available on a Linux platform. Passwords stored in this way are kept in plaintext in the kernel keyring and are potentially accessible by the root user (with difficulty). Default: false krb5_renewable_lifetime (string) Request a renewable ticket with a total lifetime given by an integer immediately followed by one of the following delimiters: s seconds m minutes h hours d days. If there is no delimiter s is assumed. Please note that it is not possible to mix units. If you want to set the renewable lifetime to one and a half hours please use '90m' instead of '1h30m'. Default: not set, i.e. the TGT is not renewable krb5_lifetime (string) Request ticket with a with a lifetime given by an integer immediately followed by one of the following delimiters: s seconds m minutes h hours d days. If there is no delimiter s is assumed. Please note that it is not possible to mix units. If you want to set the lifetime to one and a half hours please use '90m' instead of '1h30m'. Default: not set, i.e. the default ticket lifetime configured on the KDC. krb5_renew_interval (integer) The time in seconds between two checks if the TGT should be renewed. TGTs are renewed if about half of their lifetime is exceeded. If this option is not set or 0 the automatic renewal is disabled. Default: not set krb5_use_fast (string) Enables flexible authentication secure tunneling (FAST) for Kerberos pre-authentication. The following options are supported: never use FAST, this is equivalent to not set this option at all. try to use FAST, if the server does not support fast continue without. demand to use FAST, fail if the server does not require fast. Default: not set, i.e. FAST is not used. Please note that a keytab is required to use fast. Please note also that sssd supports fast only with MIT Kerberos version 1.8 and above. If sssd used with an older version using this option is a configuration error. krb5_fast_principal (string) Specifies the server principal to use for FAST. krb5_canonicalize (boolean) Specifies if the host and user principal should be canonicalized. This feature is available with MIT Kerberos >= 1.7 Default: false The following example assumes that SSSD is correctly configured and FOO is one of the domains in the [sssd] section. This example shows only configuration of Kerberos authentication, it does not include any identity provider. [domain/FOO] auth_provider = krb5 krb5_server = 192.168.1.1 krb5_realm = EXAMPLE.COM