i was wondering if the question listed in the link below was ever answered >and if not, i was hoping you could provide please. >https://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2010-September/016423.html
for more information on this"
- People I work with have adapted the stock MIT Kerberos PKINIT plugin
to work on Windows.
Do you have any sort of documentation that you can point me to on how to
make this work with windows. And also Mac as, we also have Mac users.
Currently, my main focus is on windows machines, so, the steps I have done
to try to authenticate with a smartcard:
1. install MIT kerberos
2. Install opensc-pkcs11
3. use the following commands in the hope that it will use smartcard:
kinit -X x509_user_identity=PKCS11:path_to_PKCS11.dill
i was wondering if the question listed in the link below was ever answered >and if not, i was hoping you could provide please. >https://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2010-September/016423.html
I can provide a quick summary:
- Current stock MIT Kerberos for Windows does not support pkinit (that's
what you need to use Smartcards).
- People I work with have adapted the stock MIT Kerberos PKINIT plugin
to work on Windows.
- We've talked with MIT about contributing this code back; it proceeds
in fits and starts. The last hold-up was getting a C language regular
expression library with an acceptable license for MIT (I didn't
think this would be a problem, but it turns out that it is). We use
a PCRE library for our distribution but that has it's own issues.
Unfortunately the developers on that project lost their contract and
there aren't currently resources to push that forward into something
that MIT would find acceptable.
- To answer the specific question in that email message: stock MIT Kerberos
works fine with PKINIT under OS X. If you want to use it with
Smartcards, you need a compatible PKCS#11 library. If you are using
the native smartcard support on OS X (which at the moment only
supports PIV cards as far as I know), you can use Keychain-PKCS11.
For other smartcards you could probably use OpenSC which provides
a PKCS#11 library and support for smartcards that OS X does not
support natively. In the interests of full disclosure: I wrote
Keychain-PKCS11 so I am obviously biased toward it.
--Ken
for more information on this"
- People I work with have adapted the stock MIT Kerberos PKINIT plugin
to work on Windows.
Do you have any sort of documentation that you can point me to on how to >make this work with windows. And also Mac as, we also have Mac users.
Unfortunately, no (at least, not on Windows).
We compile our own Kerberos kit for Windows, which have the changes in
it to build the PKINIT plugin. Actually, I believe it's worse than
that; from memory I believe we have a separate PKINIT plugin directory.
And ... the build environment is a huge mess there. I don't recall that
the code changes are large (I didn't do them), but you do need to source
a windows-compatible regular expression library. One of my long term
goals is to get us using as much stock MIT code as possible, but I never
did work out getting our changes to PKINIT to make it functional on Windows into stock MIT Kerberos. So, I can't really help you there.
Currently, my main focus is on windows machines, so, the steps I have done >to try to authenticate with a smartcard:
1. install MIT kerberos
2. Install opensc-pkcs11
3. use the following commands in the hope that it will use smartcard:
kinit -X x509_user_identity=PKCS11:path_to_PKCS11.dill
Right, I think you'll have more success with this on MacOS X. The code
for Windows simply doesn't exist, at least in vanilla MIT Kerberos. There are a lot of pieces you need to make PKINIT work, so I'd start with a platform where it at least is known to work.
--Ken
gotcha, thank you very much for all the help.
I guess just out of curiosity:
- for windows: there are other tools such as heimdall and microsoft
kerberos. with those I don't know if you ever played around with them or
know if they support smartcard and pin authentication to get a ticket >manually.
manually meaning, get a ticket for a specified account with the use of
kinit or similar tools..
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