1 Copyright Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> 2005-2009
2 Copyright Donald T. Davis <don@mit.edu> 2009
4 Released under the GPLv3
5 "Porting Samba4 to MIT-Krb"
11 IPA v3 will use a version of Samba4 built on top of MIT's Kerberos
12 implementation, instead of Heimdal's version of Kerberos.
14 Task list summary for porting changes needed, from Andrew Bartlett:
16 * Rewrite or extend the LDAP driver that MIT-KDC will use.
17 * MIT KDC changes: rewrite DAL, add TGS-KBAC, enable PACs,...
18 * Full thread-safety for MIT's library code,
21 Task list, without explanations (the list with explanations is in the
22 later sections of this document):
24 Porting Samba4 to MIT-krb comprises four main chunks of work:
25 1. Rewrite or extend the LDAP driver that MIT-KDC will use:
26 a. Our LDAP driver for the KDB needs to know how to do
27 Samba4's intricate canonicalization of server names,
28 user-names, and realm names.
29 b. AD-style aliases for HOST/ service names.
30 c. Implicit names for Win2k accounts.
31 d. Principal "types": client / server / krbtgs
32 e. Most or all of this code is in 3 source files,
35 a. Rewrite the MIT KDC's Data-Abstraction Layer (DAL),
36 mostly because he MIT KDC needs to see& manipulate
37 more LDAP detail, on Samba4's behalf;
38 b. Add HBAC to the KDC's TGT-issuance, so that Samba4
39 can refuse TGTs to kinit, based on time-of-day&
41 c. turn on MIT-krb 1.7's PAC handling
42 d. add bad-password counts, for unified account-lockouts
43 across all authT methods (Krb, NTLM, LDAP simple bind,
45 3. Make sure MIT's library code is more fully thread-safe,
46 by replacing all global and static variables with context
47 parameters for the library routines. This may already be
49 4. Many small changes (~15)
50 a. some extensions to MIT's libkrb5& GSSAPI libraries,
51 including GSSAPI ticket-forwarding
52 b. some refitting in Samba4's use of the MIT libraries;
53 c. make sure Samba4's portable socket API works,
54 including "packet too large" errors;
55 d. MIT's GSSAPI code should support some legacy Samba3
56 clients that present incorrectly-calculated checksums;
57 e. Samba4 app-server-host holds aUTF-16 PW, plus a
59 f. in-memory-only credentials cache;
60 g. in-memory-only keytab (nice to have);
61 h. get OSS NTLM authT library (Likewise Software?);
62 i. special Heimdal-specific functions;
63 j. principal-manipulation functions;
64 k. special check for misconfigured Samba4 hostnames;
65 l. improved krb error-messages;
66 m. improved krb logging
67 n. MS GSSMonger test-suite
68 o. testsuite for kpasswd daemon
70 0. Introduction: This document should be read alongside the Samba4
71 source code, as follows:
73 * For DAL and KDC requirements, please see Samba4's
74 source4/kdc/hdb-samba4.c in particular. This file
75 is an implementation against Heimdal's HDB abstraction
76 layer, and is the biggest part of the samba-to-krb
77 glue layer, so the main part of the port to MIT is
78 to replace hdb-samba4 with a similar glue layer
79 that's designed for MIT's code.
80 * Samba4's PAC requirements are implemeneted in
81 source4/kdc/pac-glue.c
82 * Both of the above two layers are Heimdal plugins, and
83 both get loaded in source4/kdc/kdc.c
84 * For GSSAPI requirements, see auth/gensec/gensec_gssapi.c
85 (the consumer of GSSAPI in Samba4)
86 * For Kerberos library requirements, see
87 auth/kerberos/krb5_init_context.c
88 * Samba has its own credentials system, wrapping GSS creds,
89 just as GSS creds wrap around krb5 creds. For the
90 interaction between Samba4 credential system and GSSAPI
91 and Kerberos, see auth/credentials/credentials_krb5.
93 1. Rewrite or extend the LDAP driver that MIT-KDC will use.
95 a. IPA'sLDAP driver for the KDB needs to know how to do
96 Samba4's intricate canonicalization of server names,
97 user-names, and realm names.
98 For hostnames& usernames, alternate names appear in
99 LDAP as extra values in the multivalued "principal name"
101 * For a hostname, the alternate names (other than
102 the short name, implied from the CN), are stored in
103 the servicePrincipalName
104 * For a username, the alternate names are stored in
105 the userPrincipalName attribute, and can be long
106 email-address-like names, such as joe@microsoft.com
107 (see "Type 10 names," below).
108 GSSAPI layer requirements: Welcome to the wonderful
109 world of canonicalisation. The MIT Krb5 libs (including
110 GSSAPI) do not enable the AS to send kinit a TGT containing
111 a different realm-name than what the client asked for,
112 even in U/L case differences. Heimdal has the same problem,
113 and this applies to the krb5 layer too, not just GSSAPI.
114 There are two kinds of name-canonicalization that can
116 * Lower-to-upper case conversion, because Windows domain
117 names are usually in upper case;
118 * An unrecognizable subsitution of names, such as might
119 happen when a user requests a ticket for a NetBIOS domain
120 name, but gets back a ticket for the corresponging FQDN.
121 As developers, we should test if the AD KDC's name-canonical-
122 isation can be turned off with the KDCOption flags in the
123 AS-REQ or TGS-REQ; Windows clients always send the
124 Canonicalize flags as KDCOption values.
125 Principal Names, long and short names:
126 AD's KDC does not canonicalize servicePrincipalNames, except
127 for the realm in the KDC reply. That is, the client gets
128 back the principal it asked for, with the realm portion
129 'fixed' to uppercase, long form.
130 Samba4 does some canonicalization, though Heimdal doesn't
131 canonicalize names itself: For hostnames and usernames,
132 Samba4 canonicalizes the requested name only for the LDAP
133 principal-lookup, but then Samba4 returns the retrieved LDAP
134 record with the request's original, uncanonicalized hostname
135 replacing the canonicalized name that actually was found.
136 Usernames: AndrewB says that Samba4 used to return
137 the canonicalized username exactly as retrieved from LDAP.
138 The reason Samba4 treated usernames differently was that
139 the user needs to present his own canonicalized username
140 to servers, for ACL-matching. For hostnames this isn't
142 Realm-names: AD seems to accept a realm's short name
143 in krb-requests, at least for AS_REQ operations, but the
144 AD KDC always performs realm-canonicalisation, which
145 converts the short realm-name to the canonical long form.
146 So, this causes pain for current krb client libraries.
147 Punchline: For bug-compatibility, we may need to
148 selectively or optionally disable the MIT-KDC's name-
151 Name-canonicalisation matters not only for the KDC, but
152 also for app-server-code that has to deal with keytabs.
153 Further, with credential-caches, canonicalization can
154 lead to cache-misses, but then the client just asks for
155 new credentials for the variant server-name. This could
156 happen, for example, if the user asks to access the
157 server twice, using different variants of the server-name.
158 Doubled realm-names: We also need to handle type 10
159 names (NT-ENTERPRISE), which are a full principal name
160 in the principal field, unrelated to the realm. The
161 principal field contains both principal& realm names,
162 while the realm field contains a realm name, too, possibly
163 different. For example, an NT-ENTERPRISE principal name
164 might look like: joeblow@microsoft.com@NTDEV.MICROSOFT.COM ,
165 <--principal field-->|<----realm name--->|
166 Where joe@microsoft.com is the leading portion, and
167 NTDEV.MICROSOFT.COM is the realm. This is used for the
168 'email address-like login-name' feature of AD.
169 b.AD-style aliases for HOST/ service names.
170 AD keeps a list of service-prefixed aliases for the host's
171 principal name. The AD KDC reads& parses this list, so
172 as to allow the aliased services to share the HOST/ key.
173 This means that every ticket-request for a service-alias
174 gets a service-ticket encrypted in the HOST/ key.
175 For example, this is how HTTP/ and CIFS/ can use the
176 HOST/ AD-LDAP entry, without any explicitly CIFS-prefixed
177 entry in the host's servicePrincipalName attribute. In the
178 app-server host's AD record, the servicePrincipalName says
179 only HOST/my.computer@MY.REALM , but the client asks
180 for CIFS/my.omputer@MY.REALM tickets. So, AD looks in
181 LDAP for both name-variants, and finds the HOST/ version,
182 In AD's reply, AD replaces the HOST/ prefix with CIFS/ .
183 We implement this in hdb-ldb.
184 (TBD: Andrew, is this correct?:)
185 List of HOST/ aliases: Samba4 currently uses only a small
186 set of HOST/ aliases: sPNMappings: host=ldap,dns,cifs,http .
187 Also, dns's presence in this list is a bug, somehow.
188 AD's real list has 53 entries:
189 sPNMappings: host=alerter,appmgmt,cisvc,clipsrv,browser,
190 dhcp,dnscache,replicator,eventlog,eventsystem,policyagent,
191 oakley,dmserver,dns,mcsvc,fax,msiserver,ias,messenger,
192 netlogon,netman,netdde,netddedsm,nmagent,plugplay,
193 protectedstorage,rasman,rpclocator,rpc,rpcss,remoteaccess,
194 rsvp,samss,scardsvr,scesrv,seclogon,scm,dcom,cifs,spooler,
195 snmp,schedule,tapisrv,trksvr,trkwks,ups,time,wins,www,
196 http,w3svc,iisadmin,msdtc
197 Domain members that expect the longer list will break in
198 Samba4, as of 6/09. AB says he'll try to fix this right
199 away. There is another post somewhere (ref lost for the
200 moment) that details where in active directory the long
201 list of stored aliases for HOST/ is.
202 c.Implicit names for Win2000 Accounts: AD keys its
203 server-records by CN or by servicePrincipalName, but a
204 win2k box's server-entry in LDAP doesn't include the
205 servicePrincipalName attribute, So, win2k server-accounts
206 are keyed by the CN attribute instead. Because AD's LDAP
207 doesn't have a servicePrincipalName for win2k servers'
208 entries, Samba4 has to have an implicit mapping from
209 host/computer.full.name and from host/computer, to the
210 computer's CN-keyed entry in the AD LDAP database, so to
211 be able to find the win2k server's host name in the KDB.
213 We have modified Heimdal's 'hdb' interface to specify
214 the 'class' of Principal being requested. This allows
215 us to correctly behave with the different 'classes' of
216 Principal name. This is necessary because of AD's LDAP
217 structure, which uses very different record-structures
218 for user-principals, trust principals& server-principals.
219 We currently define 3 classes:
222 * krbtgt the TGS's own ldap record
223 Samba4 also now specifies the kerberos principal as an
224 explicit parameter to LDB_fetch(), not an in/out value
225 on the struct hdb_entry parameter itself.
226 e. Most or all of this LDAP driver code is in three source
227 files, ~1000 lines in all. These files are in
229 * hdb-samba4.c (samba4-to-kdb glue-layer plugin)
230 * pac-glue.c (samba4's pac glue-layer plugin)
231 * kdc.c (loads the above two plugins).
235 a.Data-Abstraction Layer (DAL): It would be good to
236 rewrite or circumvent the MIT KDC's DAL, mostly because
237 the MIT KDC needs to see& manipulate more LDAP detail,
238 on Samba4's behalf. AB says the MIT DAL may serve well-
239 enough, though, mostly as is. AB says Samba4 will need
240 the private pointer part of the KDC plugin API, though,
241 or the PAC generation won't work (see sec.2.c, below).
242 * MIT's DAL calls lack context parameters (as of 2006),
243 so presumably they rely instead on global storage, and
244 aren't fully thread-safe.
245 * In Novell's pure DAL approach, the DAL only read in the
246 principalName as the key, so it had trouble performing
247 access-control decisions on things other than the user's
248 name (like the addresses).
249 * Here's why Samba4 needs more entry detail than the DAL
250 provides: The AS needs to have ACL rules that will allow
251 a TGT to a user only when the user logs in from the
252 right desktop addresses, and at the right times of day.
253 This coarse-granularity access-control could be enforced
254 directly by the KDC's LDAP driver, without Samba having
255 to see the entry's pertinent authZ attributes. But,
256 there's a notable exception: a user whose TGT has
257 expired, and who wants to change his password, should
258 be allowed a restricted-use TGT that gives him access
259 to the kpasswd service. This ACL-logic could be buried
260 in the LDAP driver, in the same way as the TGS ACL could
261 be enforced down there, but to do so would just be even
262 uglier than it was to put the TGS's ACL-logic in the driver.
263 * Yet another complaint is that the DAL always pulls an
264 entire LDAP entry, non-selectively. The current DAL
265 is OK for Samba4's purposes, because Samba4 only reads,
266 and doesn't write, the KDB. But this all-or-nothing
267 retrieval hurts the KDC's performance, and would do so
268 even more, if Samba had to use the DAL to change KDB
270 b.Add HBAC to the KDC's TGT-issuance, so that Samba4 can
271 refuse TGTs to kinit, based on time-of-day& IP-address
272 constraints. AB asks, "Is a DAL the layer we need?"
273 Looking at what we need to pass around, AB doesn't think
274 the DAL is the right layer; what we really want instead
275 is to create an account-authorization abstraction layer
276 (e.g., is this account permitted to login to this computer,
277 at this time?). Samba4 ended up doing account-authorization
278 inside Heimdal, via a specialized KDC plugin. For a summary
279 description of this plugin API, see Appendix 2.
280 c. Turn on MIT-krb 1.7'sPAC handling.
281 In addition, I have added a new interface hdb_fetch_ex(),
282 which returns a structure including a private data-pointer,
283 which may be used by the windc plugin inferface functions.
284 The windc plugin provides the hook for the PAC.
285 d. Samba4 needsaccess control hooks in the Heimdal& MIT
286 KDCs. We need to lockout accounts (eg, after 10 failed PW-
287 attemps), and perform other controls. This is standard
288 AD behavior, that Samba4 needs to get right, whether
289 Heimdal or MIT-krb is doing the ticket work.
290 - If PADL doesn't publish their patch for this,
291 we'll need to write our own.
292 - The windc plugin proivides a function for the main
293 access control routines. A new windc plugin function
294 should be added to increment the bad password counter
296 - Samba4 doesn't yet handle bad password counts (or good
297 password notification), so that a single policy can be
298 applied against all means of checking a password (NTLM,
299 Kerberos, LDAP Simple Bind, etc). Novell's original DAL
300 did not provide a way to update the PW counts information.
301 - Nevertheless, we know that this is very much required in
302 AD, because Samba3 + eDirectory goes to great lengths to
303 update this information. This may have been addressed in
304 Simo's subsequent IPA-KDC design),
305 * AllowedWorkstationNames and Krb5: Microsoft uses the
306 clientAddresses *multiple value* field in the krb5
307 protocol (particularly the AS_REQ) to communicate the
308 client's netbios name (legacy undotted name,<14 chars)
309 AB guesses that this is to support the userWorkstations
310 field (in user's AD record). The idea is to support
311 client-address restrictions, as was standard in NT:
312 The AD authentication server probably checks the netbios
313 address against this userWorkstations value (BTW, the
314 NetLogon server does this, too).
316 3. State Machine safety
317 when using Kerberos and GSSAPI libraries
319 * Samba's client-side& app-server-side libraries are built
320 on a giant state machine, and as such have very different
321 requirements to those traditionally expressed for kerberos
322 and GSSAPI libraries.
323 * Samba requires all of the libraries it uses to be "state
324 machine safe" in their use of internal data. This does not
325 necessarily mean "thread safe," and an application could be
326 thread safe, but not state machine safe (if it instead used
327 thread-local variables). so, if MIT's libraries were made
328 thread-safe only by inserting spinlock() code, then the MIT
329 libraries aren't yet "state machine safe."
330 * So, what does it mean for a library to be state machine safe?
331 This is mostly a question of context, and how the library manages
332 whatever internal state machines it has. If the library uses a
333 context variable, passed in by the caller, which contains all
334 the information about the current state of the library, then it
335 is safe. An example of this state is the sequence number and
336 session keys for an ongoing encrypted session).
337 * The other issue affecting state machines is 'blocking' (waiting for a
338 read on a network socket). Samba's non-blocking I/O doesn't like
339 waiting for libkrb5 to go away for awhile to talk to the KDC.
340 * Samba4 provides a hook 'send_to_kdc', that allows Samba4 to take over the
341 IO handling, and run other events in the meantime. This uses a
342 'nested event context' (which presents the challenges that the kerberos
343 library might be called again, while still in the send_to_kdc hook).
344 * Heimdal has this 'state machine safety' in parts, and we have modified
345 Samba4's lorikeet branch to improve this behaviour, when using a new,
346 non-standard API to tunnelling a ccache (containing a set of tickets)
347 through the gssapi, by temporarily casting the ccache pointer to a
348 gss credential pointer. This new API is Heimdal's samba4-requested
349 gss_krb5_import_cred() fcn; this will have to be rewritten or ported
351 * This tunnelling trick replaces an older scheme using the KRB5_CCACHE
352 environment variable to get the same job done. The tunnelling trick
353 enables a command-line app-client to run kinit tacitly, before running
354 GSSAPI for service-authentication. The tunnelling trick avoids the
355 more usual approach of keeping the ccache pointer in a global variable.
356 * [Heimdal uses a per-context variable for the 'krb5_auth_context',
357 which controls the ongoing encrypted connection, but does use global
358 variables for the ubiquitous krb5_context parameter. (No longer true,
359 because the krb5_context global is gone now.)]
360 * The modification that has added most to 'state machine safety' of
361 GSSAPI is the addition of the gss_krb5_acquire_creds() function.
362 This allows the caller to specify a keytab and ccache, for use by
363 the GSSAPI code. Therefore there is no need to use global variables
364 to communicate this information about keytab& ccache.
365 * At a more theoretical level (simply counting static and global
366 variables) Heimdal is not state machine safe for the GSSAPI layer.
367 (But Heimdal is now (6/09) much more nearly free of globals.)
368 The Krb5 layer alone is much closer, as far as I can tell, blocking
370 * As an alternate to fixing MIT Kerberos for better safety in this area,
371 a new design might be implemented in Samba, where blocking read/write
372 is made to the KDC in another (fork()ed) child process, and the results
373 passed back to the parent process for use in other non-blocking operations.
374 * To deal with blocking, we could have a fork()ed child per context,
375 using the 'GSSAPI export context' function to transfer
376 the GSSAPI state back into the main code for the wrap()/unwrap() part
377 of the operation. This will still hit issues of static storage (one
378 gss_krb5_context per process, and multiple GSSAPI encrypted sessions
379 at a time) but these may not matter in practice.
380 * This approach has long been controversial in the Samba team.
381 An alternate way would be to be implement E_AGAIN in libkrb5: similar
382 to the way to way read() works with incomplete operations. to do this
383 in libkrb5 would be difficult, but valuable.
384 * In the short-term, we deal with blocking by taking over the network
385 send() and recv() functions, therefore making them 'semi-async'. This
386 doens't apply to DNS yet.These thread-safety context-variables will
387 probably present porting problems, during the MIT port. This will
388 probably be most of the work in the port to MIT.
389 This may require more thorough thread-safe-ing work on the MIT libraries.
391 4. Many small changes (~15)
393 a. Some extensions to MIT'slibkrb5& GSSAPI libraries, including
394 GSSAPI ticket-forwarding: This is a general list of the other
395 extensions Samba4 has made to / need from the kerberos libraries
396 * DCE_STYLE : Microsoft's hard-coded 3-msg Challenge/Response handshake
397 emulates DCE's preference for C/R. Microsoft calls this DCE_STYLE.
398 MIT already has this nowadays (6/09).
399 * gsskrb5_get_initiator_subkey() (return the exact key that Samba3
400 has always asked for. gsskrb5_get_subkey() might do what we need
401 anyway). This routine is necessary, because in some spots,
402 Microsoft uses raw Kerberos keys, outside the Kerberos protocols,
403 as a direct input to MD5 and ARCFOUR, without using the make_priv()
404 or make_safe() calls, and without GSSAPI wrappings etc.
405 * gsskrb5_acquire_creds() (takes keytab and/or ccache as input
406 parameters, see keytab and state machine discussion in prev section)
407 * The new function to handle the PAC fully
408 gsskrb5_extract_authz_data_from_sec_context()
409 need to test that MIT's PAC-handling code checks the PAC's signature.
410 * gsskrb5_wrap_size (Samba still needs this one, for finding out how
411 big the wrapped packet will be, given input length).
412 b. Some refitting in Samba4's use of the MIT libraries;
413 c. Make sure Samba4'sportable socket API works:
414 * An important detail in the use of libkdc is that we use samba4's
415 own socket lib. This allows the KDC code to be as portable as
416 the rest of samba, but more importantly it ensures consistancy
417 in the handling of requests, binding to sockets etc.
418 * To handle TCP, we use of our socket layer in much the same way as
419 we deal with TCP for CIFS. Tridge created a generic packet handling
421 * For the client, samba4 likewise must take over the socket functions,
422 so that our single thread smbd will not lock up talking to itself.
423 (We allow processing while waiting for packets in our socket routines).
424 send_to_kdc() presents to its caller the samba-style socket interface,
425 but the MIT port will reimplement send_to_kdc(), and this routine will
426 use internally the same socket library that MIT-krb uses.
427 * The interface we have defined for libkdc allows for packet injection
428 into the post-socket layer, with a defined krb5_context and
429 kdb5_kdc_configuration structure. These effectively redirect the
430 kerberos warnings, logging and database calls as we require.
431 * Samba4 socket-library's current TCP support does not send back
432 'too large' error messages if the high bit is set. This is
433 needed for a proposed extension mechanism (SSL-armored kinit,
434 by Leif Johansson<leifj@it.su.se>), but is currently unsupported
435 in both Heimdal and MIT.
436 d. MIT's GSSAPI code should support some legacy Samba3
437 clients that presentincorrectly-calculated checksums.
438 * Old Clients (samba3 and HPUX clients) use 'selfmade'
439 gssapi/krb5 tokens for use in the CIFS session setup.
440 These hand-crafted ASN.1 packets don't follow rfc1964
441 (GSSAPI) perfectly, so server-side krblib code has to
442 be flexible enough to accept these bent tokens.
443 * It turns out that Windows' GSSAPI server-side code is
444 sloppy about checking some GSSAPI tokens' checksums.
445 During initial work to implement an AD client, it was
446 easier to make an acceptable solution (acceptable to
447 Windows servers) than to correctly implement the
448 GSSAPI specification, particularly on top of the
449 (inflexible) MIT Kerberos API. It did not seem
450 possible to write a correct, separate GSSAPI
451 implementation on top of MIT Kerberos's public
452 krb5lib API, and at the time, the effort did not
453 need to extend beyond what Windows would require.
454 * The upshot is that old Samba3 clients send GSSAPI
455 tokens bearing incorrect checksums, which AD's
456 GSSAPI library cheerfully accepts (but accepts
457 the good checksums, too). Similarly, Samba4's
458 Heimdal krb5lib accepts these incorrect checksums.
459 Accordingly, if MIT's krb5lib wants to interoperate
460 with the old Samba3 clients, then MIT's library will
462 * Because these old clients use krb5_mk_req()
463 the app-servers get a chksum field depending on the
464 encryption type, but that's wrong for GSSAPI (see
465 rfc 1964 section 1.1.1). The Checksum type 8003
466 should be used in the Authenticator of the AP-REQ!
467 That (correct use of the 8003 type) would allow
468 the channel bindings, the GCC_C_* req_flags and
469 optional delegation tickets to be passed from the
470 client to the server. However windows doesn't seem
471 to care whether the checksum is of the wrong type,
472 and for CIFS SessionSetups, it seems that the
473 req_flags are just set to 0. This deviant checksum
474 can't work for LDAP connections with sign or seal,
475 or for any DCERPC connection, because those
476 connections do not require the negotiation of
477 GSS-Wrap paraemters (signing or sealing of whole
478 payloads). Note: CIFS has an independent SMB
479 signing mechanism, using the Kerberos key.
480 * For the code that handles the incorrect& correct
481 checksums, see heimdal/lib/gssapi/krb5/accept_sec_context.c,
483 * This bug-compatibility is likely to be controversial
484 in the kerberos community, but a similar need for bug-
485 compatibility arose around MIT's& Heimdal's both
486 failing to support TGS_SUBKEYs correctly, and there
487 are numerous other cases.
488 seehttps://lists.anl.gov/pipermail/ietf-krb-wg/2009-May/007630.html
489 * So, MIT's krb5lib needs to also support old clients!
490 e. Samba4 app-server-host holds aUTF-16 PW, plus a key bitstring;
491 See Appendix 1, "Keytab Requirements."
492 f.In-memory-only credentials cache for forwarded tickets
493 Samba4 extracts forwarded tickets from the GSSAPI layer,
494 and puts them into the memory-based credentials cache.
495 We can then use them for proxy work. This needs to be
496 ported, if the MIT library doesn't do it yet.
497 g.In-memory-only keytab (nice to have):
498 Heimdal used to offer "in-memory keytabs" for servers that use
499 passwords. These server-side passwords were held in a Samba LDB
500 database called secrets.ldb . The heimdal library would fetch
501 the server's password from the ldb file and would construct an
502 in-memory keytab struct containing the password, somewhat as if
503 the library had read an MIT-style keytab file. Unfortunately,
504 only later, at recv_auth() time, would the Heimdal library convert
505 the server-PW into a salted-&-hashed AES key, by hashing 10,000
506 times with SHA-1. Naturally, this is really too slow for recv_auth(),
507 which runs when an app-server authenticates a client's app-service-
508 request. So, nowadays, this password-based in-memory keytab is
510 h. Get OSSNTLM authT library: AB says Likewise software
511 probably will give us their freeware "NTLM for MIT-krb"
513 i. Special Heimdal-specific functions; These functions didn't
514 exist in the MIT code, years ago, when Samba started. AB
515 will try to build a final list of these functions:
516 * krb5_free_keyblock_contents()
518 j.Principal-manipulation functions: Samba makes extensive
519 use of the principal manipulation functions in Heimdal,
520 including the known structure behind krb_principal and
521 krb5_realm (a char *). For example,
522 * krb5_parse_name_flags(smb_krb5_context->krb5_context, name,
523 KRB5_PRINCIPAL_PARSE_REQUIRE_REALM,&principal);
524 * krb5_unparse_name_flags(smb_krb5_context->krb5_context, principal,
525 KRB5_PRINCIPAL_UNPARSE_NO_REALM,&new_princ);
526 * krb5_principal_get_realm()
527 * krb5_principal_set_realm()
528 These are needed for juggling the AD variant-structures
530 k. SpecialShort name rules check for misconfigured Samba4
531 hostnames; Samba is highly likely to be misconfigured, in
532 many weird and interesting ways. So, we have a patch for
533 Heimdal that avoids DNS lookups on names without a "." in
534 them. This should avoid some delay and root server load.
535 (This errors need to be caught in MIT's library.)
536 l.Improved krb error-messages;
537 krb5_get_error_string(): This Heimdal-specific function
538 does a lot to reduce the 'administrator pain' level, by
539 providing specific, English text-string error messages
540 instead of just error code translations. (This isn't
541 necessary for the port, but it's more useful than MIT's
542 default err-handling; Make sure this works for MIT-krb)
543 m.Improved Kerberos logging support:
544 krb5_log_facility(): Samba4 now uses this Heimdal function,
545 which allows us to redirect the warnings and status from
546 the KDC (and client/server Kerberos code) to Samba's DEBUG()
547 system. Samba uses this logging routine optionally in the
548 main code, but it's required for KDC errors.
549 n. MSGSSMonger test-suite: Microsoft has released a krb-specific
550 testsuite called gssmonger, which tests interoperability. We
551 should compile it against lorikeet-heimdal& MIT and see if we
552 can build a 'Samba4' server for it. GSSMonger wasn't intended
553 to be Windows-specific.
554 o.Testsuite for kpasswd daemon: I have a partial kpasswd server
555 which needs finishing, and a Samba4 needs a client testsuite
556 written, either via the krb5 API or directly against GENSEC and
557 the ASN.1 routines. Samba4 likes to test failure-modes, not
558 just successful behavior. Currently Samba4's kpasswd only works
559 for Heimdal, not MIT clients. This may be due to call-ordering
563 Appendix 1: Keytab Requirements
565 Traditional 'MIT' keytab operation is very different from AD's
566 account-handling for application-servers:
567 a. Host PWs vs service-keys:
568 * Traditional 'MIT' behaviour is for the app-server to use a keytab
569 containing several named random-bitstring service-keys, created
570 by the KDC. An MIT-style keytab holds a different service-key
571 for every kerberized application-service that the server offers
572 to clients. Heimdal also implements this behaviour. MIT's model
573 doesn't use AD's UTF-16 'service password', and no salting is
574 necessary for service-keys, because each service-key is random
575 enough to withstand an exhaustive key-search attack.
576 * In the Windows model, the server key's construction is very
577 different: The app-server itself, not the KDC, generates a
578 random UTF-16 pseudo-textual password, and sends this password
579 to the KDC using SAMR, a DCE-RPC "domain-joining" protocol (but
580 for windows 7, see below). Then, the KDC shares this server-
581 password with every application service on the whole machine.
582 * Only when the app-server uses kerberos does the password get
583 salted by the member server (ie, an AD server-host). (That
584 is, no salt information appears to be conveyed from the AD KDC
585 to the member server, and the member server must use the rules
586 described in Luke's mail, in Appendix 3, below). The salted-
587 and-hashed version of the server-host's PW gets stored in the
588 server-host's keytab.
589 * Samba file-servers can have many server-names simultaneously
590 (kind of like web servers' software-virtual-hosting), but since
591 these servers are running in AD, these names can be set up to
592 all share the same secret key. In AD, co-located server names
593 almost always share a secret key like this. In samba3, this
594 key-sharing was optional, so some samba3 hosts' keytabs did
595 hold multiple keys. Samba4 abandons this traditional "old MIT"
596 style of keytab, and only supports one key per keytab, and
597 multiple server-names can use that keytab key in common. In
598 dealing with this model, Samba4 uses both the traditional file
599 keytab and an in-MEMORY keytabs.
600 * Pre-Windows7 AD and samba3/4 both use SAMR, an older protocol,
601 to jumpstart the member server's PW-sharing with AD (the "windows
602 domain-join process"). This PW-sharing transfers only the PW's
603 UTF-16 text, without any salting or hashing, so that non-krb
604 security mechanisms can use the same utf-16 text PW. For
605 Windows 7, this domain-joining uses LDAP for PW-setting.
606 b. Flexible server-naming
607 * The other big difference between AD's keytabs and MIT's is that
608 Windows offers a lot more flexibility about service-principals'
609 names. When the kerberos server-side library receives Windows-style tickets
610 from an app-client, MIT's krb library (or GSSAPI) must accommodate
611 Windows' flexibility about case-sensitivity and canonicalization.
612 This means that an incoming application-request to a member server
613 may use a wide variety of service-principal names. These include:
614 machine$@REALM (samba clients)
615 HOST/foo.bar@realm (win2k clients)
616 cifs/foo.bar@realm (winxp clients)
617 HOST/foo@realm (win2k clients, using netbios)
618 cifs/foo@realm (winxp clients, using netbios),
619 as well as all upper/lower-case variations on the above.
620 c. Keytabs& Name-canonicalization
621 * Heimdal's GSSAPI expects to to be called with a principal-name& a keytab,
622 possibly containing multiple principals' different keys. However, AD has
623 a different problem to solve, which is that the client may know the member-
624 server by a non-canonicalized principal name, yet AD knows the keytab
625 contains exactly one key, indexed by the canonical name. So, GSSAPI is
626 unprepared to canonicalize the server-name that the cliet requested, and
627 is also overprepared to do an unnecessary search through the keytab by
628 principal-name. So Samba's server-side GSSAPI calls have to "game" the
629 GSSAPI, by supplying the server's known canonical name, with the one-key
630 keytab. This doesn't really affect IPA's port of Samba4 to MIT-krb.
631 * Because the number of U/L case combinations got 'too hard' to put into
632 a keytab in the traditional way (with the client to specify the name),
633 we either pre-compute the keys into a traditional keytab or make an
634 in-MEMORY keytab at run time. In both cases we specifiy the principal
635 name to GSSAPI, which avoids the need to store duplicate principals.
636 * We use a 'private' keytab in our private dir, referenced from the
637 secrets.ldb by default.
639 Appendix 2: KDC Plugin for Account-Authorization
641 Here is how Samba4 ended up doing account-authorization in
642 Heimdal, via a specialized KDC plugin. This plugin helps
643 bridge an important gap: The user's AD record is much richer
644 than the Heimdal HDB format allows, so we do AD-specific
645 access-control checks in the plugin's AD-specific layer,
646 not in the DB-agnostic KDC server:
647 * We created a separate KDC plugin, with this API:
649 hdb_entry_ex { void *ctx;
651 void (*free_entry)(krb5_context, struct hdb_entry_ex *);
653 The void *ctx is a "private pointer," provided by the
654 'get' method's hdb_entry_ex retval. The APIs below use
655 the void *ctx so as to find additional information about
656 the user, not contained in the hdb_entry structure.
657 Both the provider and the APIs below understand how to
658 cast the private void *ctx pointer.
659 typedef krb5_error_code
660 (*krb5plugin_windc_pac_generate)(void * krb5_context,
661 struct hdb_entry_ex *,
663 typedef krb5_error_code
664 (*krb5plugin_windc_pac_verify)(void * krb5_context,
665 const krb5_principal,
666 struct hdb_entry_ex *,
667 struct hdb_entry_ex *,
669 typedef krb5_error_code
670 (*krb5plugin_windc_client_access)(void * krb5_context,
671 struct hdb_entry_ex *,
674 The krb5_data* here is critical, so that samba's KDC can return
675 the right NTSTATUS code in the 'error string' returned to the
676 client. Otherwise, the windows client won't get the right error
677 message to the user (such as 'password expired' etc). The pure
678 Kerberos error is not enough)
680 krb5plugin_windc_ftable { int minor_version;
681 krb5_error_code (*init)(krb5_context, void **);
682 void (*fini)(void *);
683 krb5plugin_windc_pac_generate pac_generate;
684 krb5plugin_windc_pac_verify pac_verify;
685 krb5plugin_windc_client_access client_access;
686 } krb5plugin_windc_ftable;
687 This API has some Heimdal-specific stuff, that'll
688 have to change when we port this KDC plugin to MIT krb.
689 * 1st callback (pac_generate) creates an initial PAC from the user's AD record.
690 * 2nd callback (pac_verify) checks that a PAC is correctly signed,
691 adds additional groups (for cross-realm tickets)
692 and re-signs with the key of the target kerberos
694 * 3rd callback (client_access) performs additional access checks, such as
695 allowedWorkstations and account expiry.
696 * For example, to register this plugin, use the kdc's standard
697 plugin-system at Samba4's initialisation:
698 /* first, setup the table of callback pointers */
699 /* Registar WinDC hooks */
700 ret = krb5_plugin_register(krb5_context, PLUGIN_TYPE_DATA,
701 "windc",&windc_plugin_table);
702 /* once registered, the KDC will invoke the callbacks */
703 /* while preparing each new ticket (TGT or app-tkt) */
704 * An alternative way to register the plugin is with a
705 config-file that names a DSO (Dynamically Shared Object).
707 Appendix 3: Samba4 stuff that doesn't need to get ported.
710 * Heimdal is built such that it should be able to serve multiple realms
711 at the same time. This isn't relevant for Samba's use, but it shows
712 up in a lot of generalisations throughout the code.
713 * Samba4's code originally tried internally to make it possible to use
714 Heimdal's multi-realms-per-KDC ability, but this was ill-conceived,
715 and AB has recently (6/09) ripped the last of that multi-realms
716 stuff out of samba4. AB says that in AD, it's not really possible
717 to make this work; several AD components structurally assume that
718 there's one realm per KDC. However, we do use this to support
719 canonicalization of realm-names: case variations, plus long-vs-short
720 variants of realm-names. No MIT porting task here, as long as MIT kdc
721 doesn't refuse to do some LDAP lookups (eg, alias' realm-name looks
723 * Heimdal supports multiple passwords on a client account: Samba4
724 seems to call hdb_next_enctype2key() in the pre-authentication
725 routines, to allow multiple passwords per account in krb5.
726 (I think this was intended to allow multiple salts). AD doesn't
727 support this, so the MIT port shouldn't bother with this.
728 Not needed anymore, because MIT's code now handles PACs fully:
729 * gss_krb5_copy_service_keyblock() (get the key used to actually
730 encrypt the ticket to the server, because the same key is used for
732 * gsskrb5_extract_authtime_from_sec_context (get authtime from
734 * gsskrb5_extract_authz_data_from_sec_context (get authdata from
735 ticket, ie the PAC. Must unwrap the data if in an AD-IFRELEVANT)]
736 Authz data extraction
737 * We use krb5_ticket_get_authorization_data_type(), and expect
738 it to return the correct authz data, even if wrapped in an
739 AD-IFRELEVANT container. This doesn't need to be ported to MIT.
740 This should be obsoleted by MIT's new PAC code.
742 * Samba4 needs to be built as a single binary (design requirement),
743 and this should include the KDC. Samba also (and perhaps more
744 importantly) needs to control the configuration environment of
746 * But, libkdc doesn't matter for IPA; Samba invokes the Heimdal kdc
747 as a library call, but this is just a convenience, and the MIT
748 port can do otherwise w/o trouble.)
749 Returned Salt for PreAuthentication
750 When the AD-KDC replies to pre-authentication, it returns the
751 salt, which may be in the form of a principalName that is in no
752 way connected with the current names. (ie, even if the
753 userPrincipalName and samAccountName are renamed, the old salt
755 This is the kerberos standard salt, kept in the 'Key'. The
756 AD generation rules are found in a Mail from Luke Howard dated
757 10 Nov 2004. The MIT glue layer doesn't really need to care about
758 these salt-handling details; the samba4 code& the LDAP backend
759 will conspire to make sure that MIT's KDC gets correct salts.
761 > From: Luke Howard<lukeh@padl.com>
762 > Organization: PADL Software Pty Ltd
764 > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:31:21 +1100
765 > Cc: huaraz@moeller.plus.com, samba-technical@lists.samba.org
766 > Subject: Re: Samba-3.0.7-1.3E Active Directory Issues
769 > Did some more testing, it appears the behaviour has another
770 > explanation. It appears that the standard Kerberos password salt
771 > algorithm is applied in Windows 2003, just that the source principal
774 > Here is what I've been able to deduce from creating a bunch of
775 > different accounts:
776 > [SAM name in this mail means the AD attribute samAccountName .
777 > E.g., jbob for a user and jbcomputer$ for a computer.]
779 > [UPN is the AD userPrincipalName attribute. For example, jbob@mydomain.com]
780 > Type of account Principal for Salting
781 > ========================================================================
782 > Computer Account host/<SAM-Name-Without-$>.realm@REALM
783 > User Account Without UPN<SAM-Name>@REALM
784 > User Account With UPN<LHS-Of-UPN>@REALM
786 > Note that if the computer account's SAM account name does not include
787 > the trailing '$', then the entire SAM account name is used as input to
788 > the salting principal. Setting a UPN for a computer account has no
791 > It seems to me odd that the RHS of the UPN is not used in the salting
792 > principal. For example, a user with UPN foo@mydomain.com in the realm
793 > MYREALM.COM would have a salt of MYREALM.COMfoo. Perhaps this is to
794 > allow a user's UPN suffix to be changed without changing the salt. And
795 > perhaps using the UPN for salting signifies a move away SAM names and
796 > their associated constraints.
798 > For more information on how UPNs relate to the Kerberos protocol,
801 > http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/01dec/I-D/draft-ietf-krb-wg-kerberos-referrals-02.txt