August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
10h 9m
English
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Choose the Platform and Operating System
The choice of platform and operating system is made for you if you’re using a Windows domain controller as your KDC; however, if you’re using a Unix-based KDC, you’ll have to consider what platform you’ll run the KDCs on. Any reasonably modern machine will be able to handle the load of running the KDC software; the real concern when choosing a platform to run your Kerberos KDCs is reliability.
As a general rule, when your Kerberos KDC is unavailable, your users cannot acquire Kerberos tickets to authenticate to Kerberized services. Note that any tickets that clients may have in their credential caches will continue to work, but any attempts to acquire new service tickets during a KDC outage will fail. Mirrored RAID for your Kerberos database is a good idea, as well as stable hardware from a vendor with good support and spare parts.
Finally, consider disk layout issues when installing the operating system on your KDCs. We strongly recommend that a separate disk (or better yet, a RAID set of disks) be used to hold the Kerberos database, and a separate partition used to hold all log files. Keeping log files in a separate partition prevents either inadvertent or intentional log file overflows from affecting the system or Kerberos database partitions.
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