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43 .Oo Fl c Ar file \*(Ba Xo
44 .Fl Fl config-file= Ns Ar file
47 .Op Fl p | Fl Fl no-require-preauth
48 .Op Fl Fl max-request= Ns Ar size
49 .Op Fl H | Fl Fl enable-http
52 .Op Fl Fl kerberos4-cross-realm
53 .Oo Fl r Ar string \*(Ba Xo
54 .Fl Fl v4-realm= Ns Ar string
57 .Oo Fl P Ar portspec \*(Ba Xo
58 .Fl Fl ports= Ns Ar portspec
63 .Op Fl Fl addresses= Ns Ar list of addresses
67 serves requests for tickets.
68 When it starts, it first checks the flags passed, any options that are
69 not specified with a command line flag are taken from a config file,
70 or from a default compiled-in value.
74 .It Fl c Ar file , Fl Fl config-file= Ns Ar file
75 Specifies the location of the config file, the default is
76 .Pa /var/heimdal/kdc.conf .
77 This is the only value that can't be specified in the config file.
78 .It Fl p , Fl Fl no-require-preauth
79 Turn off the requirement for pre-autentication in the initial AS-REQ
81 The use of pre-authentication makes it more difficult to do offline
83 You might want to turn it off if you have clients
84 that don't support pre-authentication.
85 Since the version 4 protocol doesn't support any pre-authentication,
86 serving version 4 clients is just about the same as not requiring
88 The default is to require pre-authentication.
89 Adding the require-preauth per principal is a more flexible way of
91 .It Fl Fl max-request= Ns Ar size
92 Gives an upper limit on the size of the requests that the kdc is
94 .It Fl H , Fl Fl enable-http
95 Makes the kdc listen on port 80 and handle requests encapsulated in HTTP.
97 don't respond to 524 requests
99 respond to Kerberos 4 requests
100 .It Fl Fl kerberos4-cross-realm
101 respond to Kerberos 4 requests from foreign realms.
102 This is a known security hole and should not be enabled unless you
103 understand the consequences and are willing to live with them.
104 .It Fl r Ar string , Fl Fl v4-realm= Ns Ar string
105 What realm this server should act as when dealing with version 4
107 The database can contain any number of realms, but since the version 4
108 protocol doesn't contain a realm for the server, it must be explicitly
110 The default is whatever is returned by
112 This option is only available if the KDC has been compiled with version
114 .It Fl P Ar portspec , Fl Fl ports= Ns Ar portspec
115 Specifies the set of ports the KDC should listen on.
117 white-space separated list of services or port numbers.
118 .It Fl Fl addresses= Ns Ar list of addresses
119 The list of addresses to listen for requests on.
120 By default, the kdc will listen on all the locally configured
122 If only a subset is desired, or the automatic detection fails, this
123 option might be used.
125 detach from pty and run as a daemon.
126 .It Fl Fl disable-des
127 disable all des encryption types, makes the kdc not use them.
130 All activities are logged to one or more destinations, see
134 The entity used for logging is
136 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILE
137 The configuration file has the same syntax as
139 but will be read before
141 so it may override settings found there.
142 Options specific to the KDC only are found in the
145 All the command-line options can preferably be added in the
147 The only difference is the pre-authentication flag, which has to be
150 .Dl require-preauth = no
152 (in fact you can specify the option as
153 .Fl Fl require-preauth=no ) .
155 And there are some configuration options which do not have
156 command-line equivalents:
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158 .It Li enable-digest = Va boolean
159 turn on support for digest processing in the KDC.
160 The default is FALSE.
161 .It Li check-ticket-addresses = Va boolean
162 Check the addresses in the ticket when processing TGS requests.
164 .It Li allow-null-ticket-addresses = Va boolean
165 Permit tickets with no addresses.
166 This option is only relevant when check-ticket-addresses is TRUE.
167 .It Li allow-anonymous = Va boolean
168 Permit anonymous tickets with no addresses.
169 .It Li max-kdc-datagram-reply-length = Va number
170 Maximum packet size the UDP rely that the KDC will transmit, instead
171 the KDC sends back a reply telling the client to use TCP instead.
172 .It Li transited-policy = Li always-check \*(Ba \
173 Li allow-per-principal | Li always-honour-request
174 This controls how KDC requests with the
175 .Li disable-transited-check
176 flag are handled. It can be one of:
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179 Always check transited encoding, this is the default.
180 .It Li allow-per-principal
181 Currently this is identical to
183 In a future release, it will be possible to mark a principal as able
184 to handle unchecked requests.
185 .It Li always-honour-request
186 Always do what the client asked.
187 In a future release, it will be possible to force a check per
190 .It encode_as_rep_as_tgs_rep = Va boolean
191 Encode AS-Rep as TGS-Rep to be bug-compatible with old DCE code.
192 The Heimdal clients allow both.
193 .It kdc_warn_pwexpire = Va time
194 How long before password/principal expiration the KDC should start
195 sending out warning messages.
198 The configuration file is only read when the
201 If changes made to the configuration file are to take effect, the
203 needs to be restarted.
205 An example of a config file:
206 .Bd -literal -offset indent
212 If the machine running the KDC has new addresses added to it, the KDC
213 will have to be restarted to listen to them.
214 The reason it doesn't just listen to wildcarded (like INADDR_ANY)
215 addresses, is that the replies has to come from the same address they
216 were sent to, and most OS:es doesn't pass this information to the
218 If your normal mode of operation require that you add and remove
219 addresses, the best option is probably to listen to a wildcarded TCP
220 socket, and make sure your clients use TCP to connect.
221 For instance, this will listen to IPv4 TCP port 88 only:
222 .Bd -literal -offset indent
223 kdc --addresses=0.0.0.0 --ports="88/tcp"
226 There should be a way to specify protocol, port, and address triplets,
227 not just addresses and protocol, port tuples.