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