4 @node Windows compatibility, Programming with Kerberos, Kerberos 4 issues, Top
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6 @chapter Windows compatibility
8 Microsoft Windows, starting from version 2000 (formerly known as Windows NT 5), implements Kerberos 5. Their implementation, however, has some quirks,
9 peculiarities, and bugs. This chapter is a short summary of the compatibility
10 issues between Heimdal and various Windows versions.
12 The big problem with the Kerberos implementation in Windows
13 is that the available documentation is more focused on getting
14 things to work rather than how they work, and not that useful in figuring
15 out how things really work. It's of course subject to change all the time and
16 mostly consists of our not so inspired guesses. Hopefully it's still
20 * Configuring Windows to use a Heimdal KDC::
21 * Inter-Realm keys (trust) between Windows and a Heimdal KDC::
22 * Create account mappings::
24 * Authorisation data::
25 * Quirks of Windows 2000 KDC::
26 * Useful links when reading about the Windows::
29 @node Configuring Windows to use a Heimdal KDC, Inter-Realm keys (trust) between Windows and a Heimdal KDC, Windows compatibility, Windows compatibility
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31 @section Configuring Windows to use a Heimdal KDC
33 You need the command line program called @command{ksetup.exe}. This program comes with the Windows Support Tools, available from either the installation CD-ROM (@file{SUPPORT/TOOLS/SUPPORT.CAB}), or from Microsoft web site. Starting from Windows 2008, it is already installed. This program is used to configure the Kerberos settings on a Workstation.
35 @command{Ksetup} store the domain information under the registry key:
36 @code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\Kerberos\Domains}.
38 Use the @command{kadmin} program in Heimdal to create a host principal in the
43 kadmin> ank --password=password host/datan.example.com
46 The name @samp{datan.example.com} should be replaced with DNS name of
49 You must configure the workstation as a member of a workgroup, as opposed
50 to a member in an NT domain, and specify the KDC server of the realm
53 C:> ksetup /setdomain EXAMPLE.COM
54 C:> ksetup /addkdc EXAMPLE.COM kdc.example.com
57 Set the machine password, i.e.@: create the local keytab:
59 C:> ksetup /SetComputerPassword password
62 The password used in @kbd{ksetup /setmachpassword} must be the same
63 as the password used in the @kbd{kadmin ank} command.
65 The workstation must now be rebooted.
67 A mapping between local NT users and Kerberos principals must be specified.
68 You have two choices. First:
71 C:> ksetup /mapuser user@@MY.REALM nt_user
74 This will map a user to a specific principal; this allows you to have
75 other usernames in the realm than in your NT user database. (Don't ask
76 me why on earth you would want that@enddots{})
80 C:> ksetup /mapuser * *
82 The Windows machine will now map any user to the corresponding principal,
83 for example @samp{nisse} to the principal @samp{nisse@@MY.REALM}.
84 (This is most likely what you want.)
86 @node Inter-Realm keys (trust) between Windows and a Heimdal KDC, Create account mappings, Configuring Windows to use a Heimdal KDC, Windows compatibility
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88 @section Inter-Realm keys (trust) between Windows and a Heimdal KDC
90 See also the Step-by-Step guide from Microsoft, referenced below.
92 Install Windows, and create a new controller (Active Directory
93 Server) for the domain.
95 By default the trust will be non-transitive. This means that only users
96 directly from the trusted domain may authenticate. This can be changed
97 to transitive by using the @command{netdom.exe} tool. @command{netdom.exe}
98 can also be used to add the trust between two realms.
100 You need to tell Windows on what hosts to find the KDCs for the
101 non-Windows realm with @command{ksetup}, see @xref{Configuring Windows
102 to use a Heimdal KDC}.
104 This needs to be done on all computers that want enable cross-realm
105 login with @code{Mapped Names}. @c XXX probably shouldn't be @code
107 Then you need to add the inter-realm keys on the Windows KDC@. Start the
108 Domain Tree Management tool (found in Programs, Administrative tools,
109 Active Directory Domains and Trusts).
111 Right click on Properties of your domain, select the Trust tab. Press
112 Add on the appropriate trust windows and enter domain name and
113 password. When prompted if this is a non-Windows Kerberos realm, press
116 Do not forget to add trusts in both directions (if that's what you want).
118 If you want to use @command{netdom.exe} instead of the Domain Tree
119 Management tool, you do it like this:
122 netdom trust NT.REALM.EXAMPLE.COM /Domain:EXAMPLE.COM /add /realm /passwordt:TrustPassword
125 You also need to add the inter-realm keys to the Heimdal KDC. But take
126 care to the encryption types and salting used for those keys. There should be
127 no encryption type stronger than the one configured on Windows side for this
128 relationship, itself limited to the ones supported by this specific version of
129 Windows, nor any Kerberos 4 salted hashes, as Windows does not seem to
130 understand them. Otherwise, the trust will not works.
132 Here are the version-specific needed information:
134 @item Windows 2000: maximum encryption type is DES
135 @item Windows 2003: maximum encryption type is DES
136 @item Windows 2003RC2: maximum encryption type is RC4, relationship defaults to DES
137 @item Windows 2008: maximum encryption type is AES, relationship defaults to RC4
140 For Windows 2003RC2, to change the trust encryption type, you have to use the
141 @command{ktpass}, from the Windows 2003 Resource kit *service pack2*, available
142 from Microsoft web site.
145 C:> ktpass /MITRealmName UNIX.EXAMPLE.COM /TrustEncryp RC4
148 For Windows 2008, the same operation can be done with the @command{ksetup}, installed by default.
151 C:> ksetup /SetEncTypeAttre EXAMPLE.COM AES256-SHA1
154 Once the relationship is correctly configured, you can add the required
155 inter-realm keys, using heimdal default encryption types:
158 kadmin add krbtgt/NT.REALM.EXAMPLE.COM@@EXAMPLE.COM
159 kadmin add krbtgt/REALM.EXAMPLE.COM@@NT.EXAMPLE.COM
162 Use the same passwords for both keys.
164 And if needed, to remove unsupported encryptions, such as the following ones for a Windows 2003RC2 server.
167 kadmin del_enctype krbtgt/REALM.EXAMPLE.COM@@NT.EXAMPLE.COM aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96
168 kadmin del_enctype krbtgt/REALM.EXAMPLE.COM@@NT.EXAMPLE.COM des3-cbc-sha1
169 kadmin del_enctype krbtgt/NT.EXAMPLE.COM@@EXAMPLE.COM aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96
170 kadmin del_enctype krbtgt/NT.EXAMPLE.COM@@EXAMPLE.COM des3-cbc-sha1
173 Do not forget to reboot before trying the new realm-trust (after
174 running @command{ksetup}). It looks like it might work, but packets are
175 never sent to the non-Windows KDC.
177 @node Create account mappings, Encryption types, Inter-Realm keys (trust) between Windows and a Heimdal KDC, Windows compatibility
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179 @section Create account mappings
181 Start the @code{Active Directory Users and Computers} tool. Select the
182 View menu, that is in the left corner just below the real menu (or press
183 Alt-V), and select Advanced Features. Right click on the user that you
184 are going to do a name mapping for and choose Name mapping.
186 Click on the Kerberos Names tab and add a new principal from the
189 @c XXX check entry name then I have network again
190 This adds @samp{authorizationNames} entry to the users LDAP entry to
191 the Active Directory LDAP catalog. When you create users by script you
192 can add this entry instead.
194 @node Encryption types, Authorisation data, Create account mappings, Windows compatibility
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196 @section Encryption types
198 Windows 2000 supports both the standard DES encryptions (@samp{des-cbc-crc} and
199 @samp{des-cbc-md5}) and its own proprietary encryption that is based on MD4 and
200 RC4 that is documented in and is supposed to be described in
201 @file{draft-brezak-win2k-krb-rc4-hmac-03.txt}. New users will get both
202 MD4 and DES keys. Users that are converted from a NT4 database, will
203 only have MD4 passwords and will need a password change to get a DES
206 @node Authorisation data, Quirks of Windows 2000 KDC, Encryption types, Windows compatibility
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208 @section Authorisation data
210 The Windows 2000 KDC also adds extra authorisation data in tickets.
211 It is at this point unclear what triggers it to do this. The format of
212 this data is only available under a ``secret'' license from Microsoft,
213 which prohibits you implementing it.
215 A simple way of getting hold of the data to be able to understand it
216 better is described here.
219 @item Find the client example on using the SSPI in the SDK documentation.
220 @item Change ``AuthSamp'' in the source code to lowercase.
221 @item Build the program.
222 @item Add the ``authsamp'' principal with a known password to the
223 database. Make sure it has a DES key.
224 @item Run @kbd{ktutil add} to add the key for that principal to a
226 @item Run @kbd{appl/test/nt_gss_server -p 2000 -s authsamp
227 @kbd{--dump-auth}=@var{file}} where @var{file} is an appropriate file.
228 @item It should authenticate and dump for you the authorisation data in
230 @item The tool @kbd{lib/asn1/asn1_print} is somewhat useful for
234 @node Quirks of Windows 2000 KDC, Useful links when reading about the Windows, Authorisation data, Windows compatibility
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236 @section Quirks of Windows 2000 KDC
238 There are some issues with salts and Windows 2000. Using an empty salt---which is the only one that Kerberos 4 supported, and is therefore known
239 as a Kerberos 4 compatible salt---does not work, as far as we can tell
240 from out experiments and users' reports. Therefore, you have to make
241 sure you keep around keys with all the different types of salts that are
242 required. Microsoft have fixed this issue post Windows 2003.
244 Microsoft seems also to have forgotten to implement the checksum
245 algorithms @samp{rsa-md4-des} and @samp{rsa-md5-des}. This can make Name
246 mapping (@pxref{Create account mappings}) fail if a @samp{des-cbc-md5} key
247 is used. To make the KDC return only @samp{des-cbc-crc} you must delete
248 the @samp{des-cbc-md5} key from the kdc using the @kbd{kadmin
249 del_enctype} command.
252 kadmin del_enctype lha des-cbc-md5
255 You should also add the following entries to the @file{krb5.conf} file:
259 default_etypes = des-cbc-crc
260 default_etypes_des = des-cbc-crc
263 These configuration options will make sure that no checksums of the
264 unsupported types are generated.
266 @node Useful links when reading about the Windows, , Quirks of Windows 2000 KDC, Windows compatibility
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268 @section Useful links when reading about the Windows
270 See also our paper presented at the 2001 Usenix Annual Technical
271 Conference, available in the proceedings or at
272 @uref{http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix01/freenix01/westerlund.html}.
274 There are lots of texts about Kerberos on Microsoft's web site, here is a
275 short list of the interesting documents that we have managed to find.
279 @item Step-by-Step Guide to Kerberos 5 (krb5 1.0) Interoperability:
280 @uref{http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/kerbstep.mspx}.
281 Kerberos GSS-API (in Windows-eze SSPI), Windows as a client in a
282 non-Windows KDC realm, adding unix clients to a Windows 2000 KDC, and
283 adding cross-realm trust (@pxref{Inter-Realm keys (trust) between Windows
286 @item Windows 2000 Kerberos Authentication:
287 @uref{www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/confeat/kerberos.mspx}.
288 White paper that describes how Kerberos is used in Windows 2000.
290 @item Overview of Kerberos:
291 @uref{http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q248/7/58.ASP}.
292 Links to useful other links.
294 @c @item Klist for Windows:
295 @c @uref{http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period00/security0500.htm}.
296 @c Describes where to get a klist for Windows 2000.
298 @item Event logging for Kerberos:
299 @uref{http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q262/1/77.ASP}.
300 Basically it say that you can add a registry key
301 @code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Kerberos\Parameters\LogLevel}
302 with value DWORD equal to 1, and then you'll get logging in the Event
305 @c @item Access to the Active Directory through LDAP:
306 @c @uref{http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/kerberossamp.htm}
310 Other useful programs include these:
314 @uref{http://www.bindview.com/Support/RAZOR/Utilities/Windows/pwdump2_readme.cfm}