dfs/dce and openssh

Perry Smith pedz at easesoftware.com
Fri May 11 10:38:28 EST 2007


On May 10, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Simon Wilkinson wrote:

>
> On 10 May 2007, at 16:24, Perry Smith wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure that somehow Apple has managed to solve this
>> problem.  They authenticate with Kerberos and I can log from system A
>> to system B using ssh.  There may be two problems here...
>
> I think we're talking at cross purposes here
>
> 1) If you're connecting to a system using an RSA/DSA key, there's  
> no way to use that RSA key to get Kerberos credentials
> 2) If you want to connect to a machine where the RSA public keys  
> are in a .authorized_keys file in the Kerberized filesystem - you  
> need that file to be readable by the sshd. This will let you log  
> in, but still won't give you Kerberos credentials.
>

I am starting out from a system with Kerberos credientials.  I don't  
know what exactly that implies.  Does that imply that I don't need  
the RSA/DSA stuff at all and the Kerberos ticket is just passed?



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