these were the Kerberos Version 5, Release 1.2 Release Notes which are be updated for the next release by The MIT Kerberos Team Unpacking the Source Distribution --------------------------------- The source distribution of Kerberos 5 comes in three gzipped tarfiles, krb5-1.2.src.tar.gz, krb5-1.2.doc.tar.gz, and krb5-1.2.crypto.tar.gz. The krb5-1.2.doc.tar.gz contains the doc/ directory and this README file. The krb5-1.2.src.tar.gz contains the src/ directory and this README file, except for the crypto library sources, which are in krb5-1.2.crypto.tar.gz. Instruction on how to extract the entire distribution follow. These directions assume that you want to extract into a directory called DIST. If you have the GNU tar program and gzip installed, you can simply do: mkdir DIST cd DIST gtar zxpf krb5-1.2.src.tar.gz gtar zxpf krb5-1.2.crypto.tar.gz gtar zxpf krb5-1.2.doc.tar.gz If you don't have GNU tar, you will need to get the FSF gzip distribution and use gzcat: mkdir DIST cd DIST gzcat krb5-1.2.src.tar.gz | tar xpf - gzcat krb5-1.2.crypto.tar.gz | tar xpf - gzcat krb5-1.2.doc.tar.gz | tar xpf - Both of these methods will extract the sources into DIST/krb5-1.2/src and the documentation into DIST/krb5-1.2/doc. Building and Installing Kerberos 5 ---------------------------------- The first file you should look at is doc/install-guide.ps; it contains the notes for building and installing Kerberos 5. The info file krb5-install.info has the same information in info file format. You can view this using the GNU emacs info-mode, or by using the standalone info file viewer from the Free Software Foundation. This is also available as an HTML file, install.html. Other good files to look at are admin-guide.ps and user-guide.ps, which contain the system administrator's guide, and the user's guide, respectively. They are also available as info files kerberos-admin.info and krb5-user.info, respectively. These files are also available as HTML files. If you are attempting to build under Windows, please see the src/windows/README file. Reporting Bugs -------------- Please report any problems/bugs/comments using the krb5-send-pr program. The krb5-send-pr program will be installed in the sbin directory once you have successfully compiled and installed Kerberos V5 (or if you have installed one of our binary distributions). If you are not able to use krb5-send-pr because you haven't been able compile and install Kerberos V5 on any platform, you may send mail to krb5-bugs@mit.edu. Notes, Major Changes, and Known Bugs for 1.3 ------------------------------------ * We now install the compile_et program, so other packages can use the installed com_err library with their own error tables. * The header files we install now assume ANSI/ISO C ('89, not '99). We have stopped testing on SunOS 4, even with gcc. Some of our code now has C89-based assumptions, like free(NULL) being well defined, that will probably frustrate any attempts to run this code under SunOS 4 or other pre-C89 systems. * Some new code, bug fixes, and cleanup for IPv6 support. [[TODO: Insert list of (non-)supporting programs and libraries here.]] * We have upgraded to autoconf 2.52 (or later), and the syntax for specifying certain configuration options have changed. For example, autoconf 2.52 configure scripts let you specify command-line options like "configure CC=/some/path/foo-cc", so we have removed some of our old options like --with-cc in favor of this approach. * The client libraries can now use TCP to connect to the KDC. This may be necessary when talking to Microsoft KDCs (domain controllers), if they issue you tickets with lots of PAC data. * If you have versions of the com_err or ss packages installed locally, you can use the --with-system-et and --with-system-ss configure options to use them rather than using the versions supplied here. Note that the interfaces are assumed to be similar to those we supply; in particular, some older, divergent versions of the com_err library may not work with the krb5 sources. The CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and SS_LIB variables can be used to help the compiler and linker find the installed packages. Notes, Major Changes, and Known Bugs for 1.2, delete before shipping 1.3 ------------------------------------ * Triple DES support, for session keys as well as user or service keys, should be nearly complete in this release. Much of the work that has been needed is generic multiple-cryptosystem support, so the addition of another cryptosystem should be much easier. * GSSAPI support for 3DES has been added. An Internet Draft is being worked on that will describe how this works; it is not currently standardized. Some backwards-compatibility issues in this area mean that enabling 3DES support must be done with caution; service keys that are used for GSSAPI must not be updated to 3DES until the services themselves are upgraded to support 3DES under GSSAPI. * DNS support for locating KDCs is enabled by default. DNS support for looking up the realm of a host is compiled in but disabled by default (due to some concerns with DNS spoofing). We recommend that you publish your KDC information through DNS even if you intend to rely on config files at your own site; otherwise, sites that wish to communicate with you will have to keep their config files updated with your information. One of the goals of this code is to reduce the client-side configuration maintenance requirements as much as is possible, without compromising security. See the administrator's guide for information on setting up DNS information for your realm. One important effect of this for developers is that on many systems, "-lresolv" must be added to the compiler command line when linking Kerberos programs. Configure-time options are available to control the inclusion of the DNS code and the setting of the defaults. Entries in krb5.conf will also modify the behavior if the code has been compiled in. * Numerous buffer-overrun problems have been found and fixed. Many of these were in locations we don't expect can be exploited in any useful way (for example, overrunning a buffer of MAXPATHLEN bytes if a compiled-in pathname is too long, in a program that has no special privileges). It may be possible to exploit a few of these to compromise system security. * Partial support for IPv6 addresses has been added. It can be enabled or disabled at configure time with --enable-ipv6 or --disable-ipv6; by default, the configure script will search for certain types and macros, and enable the IPv6 code if they're found. The IPv6 support at this time mostly consists of including the addresses in credentials. * A protocol change has been made to the "rcmd" suite (rlogin, rsh, rcp) to address several security problems described in Kris Hildrum's paper presented at NDSS 2000. New command-line options have been added to control the selection of protocol, since the revised protocol is not compatible with the old one. * A security problem in login.krb5 has been fixed. This problem was only present if the krb4 compatibility code was not compiled in. * A security problem with ftpd has been fixed. An error in the in the yacc grammar permitted potential root access. * The client programs kinit, klist and kdestroy have been changed to incorporate krb4 support. New command-line options control whether krb4 behavior, krb5 behavior, or both are used. * Patches from Frank Cusack for much better hardware preauth support have been incorporated. * Patches from Matt Crawford extend the kadmin ACL syntax so that restrictions can be imposed on what certain administrators may do to certain accounts. * A KDC on a host with multiple network addresses will now respond to a client from the address that the client used to contact it. The means used to implement this will however cause the KDC not to listen on network addresses configured after the KDC has started. Minor changes ------------- * New software using com_err should use the {add,remove}_error_table interface rather than init_XXX_error_table; in fact, the latter function in the generate C files will now call add_error_table instead of messing with unprotected global variables. Karl Ramm has offered to look into reconciling the various extensions and changes that have been made in different versions of the MIT library, and the API used in the Heimdal equivalent. No timeline is set for this work. * Some source files (including some header files we install) now have annotations for use with the LCLint package from the University of Virginia. LCLint, as of version 2.5q, is not capable of handling much of the Kerberos code in its current form, at least not without significantly restructuring the Kerberos code, but it has been used in limited cases and has uncovered some bugs. We may try adding more annotations in the future. Minor changes for 1.2, delete this section before shipping 1.3 ------------- * The shell code for searching for the Tcl package at configure time has been modified. If a tclConfig.sh can be found, the information it contains is used, otherwise the old searching method is tried. Let us know if this new scheme causes any problems. * Shared library builds may work on HPUX, Rhapsody/MacOS X, and newer Alpha systems now. * The Windows build will now include kvno and gss-sample. * The routine krb5_secure_config_files has been disabled. A new routine, krb5_init_secure_context, has been added in its place. * The routine decode_krb5_ticket is now being exported as krb5_decode_ticket. Any programs that used the old name (which should be few) should be changed to use the new name; we will probably eliminate the old name in the future. * The CCAPI-based credentials cache code has been changed to store the local-clock time of issue and expiration rather than the KDC-clock times. * On systems with large numbers of IP addresses, "kinit" should do a better job of acquiring those addresses to put in the user's credentials. * Several memory leaks in error cases in the gssrpc code have been fixed. * A bug with login clobbering some internal static storage on AIX has been fixed. * Per-library initialization and cleanup functions have been added, for use in configurations that dynamically load and unload these libraries. * Many compile-time warnings have been fixed. * The GSS sample programs have been updated to exercise more of the API. * The telnet server should produce a more meaningful error message if authentication is required but not provided. * Changes have been made to ksu to make it more difficult to use it to leak information the user does not have access to. * The sample config file information for the CYGNUS.COM realm has been updated, and the GNU.ORG realm has been added. * A configure-time option has been added to enable a replay cache in the KDC. We recommend its use when hardware preauthentication is being used. It is enabled by default, and can be disabled if desired with the configure-time option --disable-kdc-replay-cache. * Some new routines have been added to the library and krb5.h. * A new routine has been added to the prompter interface to allow the application to determine which of the strings prompted for is the user's password, in case it is needed for other purposes. * The remote kadmin interface has been enhanced to support the specification of key/salt types for a principal. * New keytab entries' key values can now be specified manually with a new command in the ktutil program. * A longstanding bug where certain krb4 exchanges using the compatibility library between systems with different byte orders would fail half the time has been fixed. * A source file under the GPL has been replaced with an equivalent under the BSD license. 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BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTUOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. Acknowledgements ---------------- Appreciation Time!!!! There are far too many people to try to thank them all; many people have contributed to the development of Kerberos V5. This is only a partial listing.... Thanks to Paul Vixie and the Internet Software Consortium for funding the work of Barry Jaspan. This funding was invaluable for the OV administration server integration, as well as the 1.0 release preparation process. Thanks to John Linn, Scott Foote, and all of the folks at OpenVision Technologies, Inc., who donated their administration server for use in the MIT release of Kerberos. Thanks to Jeff Bigler, Mark Eichin, Marc Horowitz, Nancy Gilman, Ken Raeburn, and all of the folks at Cygnus Support, who provided innumerable bug fixes and portability enhancements to the Kerberos V5 tree. Thanks especially to Jeff Bigler, for the new user and system administrator's documentation. Thanks to Doug Engert from ANL for providing many bug fixes, as well as testing to ensure DCE interoperability. Thanks to Ken Hornstein at NRL for providing many bug fixes and suggestions. Thanks to Matt Crawford at FNAL for bugfixes and enhancements. Thanks to Sean Mullan and Bill Sommerfeld from Hewlett Packard for their many suggestions and bug fixes. Thanks to Nalin Dahyabhai of RedHat and Chris Evans for locating and providing patches for numerous buffer overruns. Thanks to Christopher Thompson and Marcus Watts for discovering the ftpd security bug. Thanks to the members of the Kerberos V5 development team at MIT, both past and present: Danilo Almeida, Jay Berkenbilt, Richard Basch, John Carr, Don Davis, Alexandra Ellwood, Nancy Gilman, Matt Hancher, Sam Hartman, Paul Hill, Marc Horowitz, Eva Jacobus, Miroslav Jurisic, Barry Jaspan, Geoffrey King, John Kohl, Peter Litwack, Scott McGuire, Kevin Mitchell, Cliff Neuman, Paul Park, Ezra Peisach, Chris Provenzano, Ken Raeburn, Jon Rochlis, Jeff Schiller, Brad Thompson, Harry Tsai, Ted Ts'o, Marshall Vale, Tom Yu.