August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
10h 9m
English
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Kerberos Referrals
As originally implemented in MIT Kerberos 5, each Kerberos client requires detailed configuration information about all realms the client participates in. With Unix clients, the information is coded in the /etc/krb5.conf file. This file must be kept up to date and distributed to all clients, which, in large and complex network environments, can quickly become an unwieldy and unmanageable task. Furthermore, machines that are not centrally managed or mobile machines such as laptops are even more problematic, as distributing changes to the Kerberos configuration files to these machines is nearly impossible.
Microsoft recognized the need for a new method for handling this configuration information in a centralized place when it implemented Kerberos in its Windows 2000 operating system, and created a system by which the KDC can provide clients correct replies, even when queries are misdirected or malformed. Through this mechanism, clients only require minimal configuration, enough to find their local Kerberos realm, and all queries are directed to the local KDC, even cross-realm queries destined for a foreign Kerberos realm. The Kerberos support in Microsoft’s Windows 2000 and later operating systems includes support for—and, indeed, depends on—the functioning of Kerberos referrals for Windows domain operations.
There are three classes of information that the Microsoft implementation of Kerberos referrals handles for Kerberos clients: user and service principal name ...
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