.. _pkinit: PKINIT configuration ==================== PKINIT is a preauthentication mechanism for Kerberos 5 which uses X.509 certificates to authenticate the KDC to clients and vice versa. PKINIT can also be used to enable anonymity support, allowing clients to communicate securely with the KDC or with application servers without authenticating as a particular client principal. Configuring PKINIT requires establishing a certificate authority (or using an existing one), and using the authority to sign certificates for the KDC and for each client principal. These instructions will describe how to generate the necessary certificates using OpenSSL, and then explain how to configure the KDC and clients once the certificates are in hand. Generating a certificate authority certificate ---------------------------------------------- You can establish a new certificate authority (CA) for use with a PKINIT deployment with the commands:: openssl genrsa -out cakey.pem 2048 openssl req -key cakey.pem -new -x509 -out cacert.pem -days 3650 The second command will ask for the values of several certificate fields. These fields can be set to any values. You can adjust the expiration time of the CA certificate by changing the number after ``-days``. Since the CA certificate must be deployed to client machines each time it changes, it should normally have an expiration time far in the future; however, expiration times after 2037 may cause interoperability issues in rare circumstances. The result of these commands will be two files, cakey.pem and cacert.pem. cakey.pem will contain a 2048-bit RSA private key, which must be carefully protected. cacert.pem will contain the CA certificate, which must be placed in the filesytems of the KDC and each client host. cakey.pem will be required to create KDC and client certificates. Generating a KDC certificate ---------------------------- A KDC certificate for use with PKINIT is required to have some unusual fields, which makes generating them with OpenSSL somewhat complicated. First, you will need a file containing the following:: [kdc_cert] basicConstraints=CA:FALSE keyUsage=nonRepudiation,digitalSignature,keyEncipherment,keyAgreement extendedKeyUsage=1.3.6.1.5.2.3.5 subjectKeyIdentifier=hash authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer issuerAltName=issuer:copy subjectAltName=otherName:1.3.6.1.5.2.2;SEQUENCE:kdc_princ_name [kdc_princ_name] realm=EXP:0,GeneralString:${ENV::REALM} principal_name=EXP:1,SEQUENCE:kdc_principal_seq [kdc_principal_seq] name_type=EXP:0,INTEGER:1 name_string=EXP:1,SEQUENCE:kdc_principals [kdc_principals] princ1=GeneralString:krbtgt princ2=GeneralString:${ENV::REALM} If the above contents are placed in extensions.kdc, you can generate and sign a KDC certificate with the following commands:: openssl genrsa -out kdckey.pem 2048 openssl req -new -out kdc.req -key kdckey.pem env REALM=YOUR_REALMNAME openssl x509 -req -in kdc.req \ -CAkey cakey.pem -CA cacert.pem -out kdc.pem -days 365 \ -extfile extensions.kdc -extensions kdc_cert -CAcreateserial rm kdc.req The second command will ask for the values of certificate fields, which can be set to any values. In the third command, substitute your KDC's realm name for YOUR_REALMNAME. You can adjust the certificate's expiration date by changing the number after ``-days``. Remember to create a new KDC certificate before the old one expires. The result of this operation will be in two files, kdckey.pem and kdc.pem. Both files must be placed in the KDC's filesystem. kdckey.pem, which contains the KDC's private key, must be carefully protected. Generating client certificates ------------------------------ PKINIT client certificates also must have some unusual certificate fields. To generate a client certificate with OpenSSL, you will need an extensions file (different from the KDC extensions file above) containing:: [client_cert] basicConstraints=CA:FALSE keyUsage=digitalSignature,keyEncipherment,keyAgreement extendedKeyUsage=1.3.6.1.5.2.3.4 subjectKeyIdentifier=hash authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer issuerAltName=issuer:copy subjectAltName=otherName:1.3.6.1.5.2.2;SEQUENCE:princ_name [princ_name] realm=EXP:0,GeneralString:${ENV::REALM} principal_name=EXP:1,SEQUENCE:principal_seq [principal_seq] name_type=EXP:0,INTEGER:1 name_string=EXP:1,SEQUENCE:principals [principals] princ1=GeneralString:${ENV::CLIENT} If the above contents are placed in extensions.client, you can generate and sign a client certificate with the following commands:: openssl genrsa -out clientkey.pem 2048 openssl req -new -key clientkey.pem -out client.req env REALM=YOUR_REALMNAME CLIENT=YOUR_PRINCNAME openssl x509 \ -CAkey cakey.pem -CA cacert.pem -req -in client.req \ -extensions client_cert -extfile extensions.client \ -days 365 -out client.pem rm client.req Normally, the first two commands should be run on the client host, and the resulting client.req file transferred to the certificate authority host for the third command. As in the previous steps, the second command will ask for the values of certificate fields, which can be set to any values. In the third command, substitute your realm's name for YOUR_REALMNAME and the client's principal name (without realm) for YOUR_PRINCNAME. You can adjust the certificate's expiration date by changing the number after ``-days``. The result of this operation will be two files, clientkey.pem and client.pem. Both files must be present on the client's host; clientkey.pem, which contains the client's private key, must be protected from access by others. Configuring the KDC ------------------- The KDC must have filesystem access to the CA certificate (cacert.pem), the KDC certificate (kdc.pem), and the KDC private key (kdckey.pem). Configure the following relations in the KDC's :ref:`kdc.conf(5)` file, either in the :ref:`kdcdefaults` section or in a :ref:`kdc_realms` subsection:: pkinit_identity = FILE:/var/lib/krb5kdc/kdc.pem,/var/lib/krb5kdc/kdckey.pem pkinit_anchors = FILE:/var/lib/krb5kdc/cacert.pem Adjust the pathnames to match the paths of the three files. Because of the larger size of requests and responses using PKINIT, you may also need to allow TCP access to the KDC:: kdc_tcp_ports = 88 Restart the :ref:`krb5kdc(8)` daemon to pick up the configuration changes. The principal entry for each PKINIT-using client must be configured to require preauthentication. Ensure this with the command:: kadmin -q 'modprinc +requires_preauth YOUR_PRINCNAME' Starting with release 1.12, it is possible to remove the long-term keys of a principal entry, which can save some space in the database and help to clarify some PKINIT-related error conditions by not asking for a password:: kadmin -q 'purgekeys -all YOUR_PRINCNAME' These principal options can also be specified at principal creation time as follows:: kadmin -q 'add_principal +requires_preauth -nokey YOUR_PRINCNAME' Configuring the clients ----------------------- To perform PKINIT authentication, a client host must have filesystem access to the CA certificate (cacert.pem), the client certificate (client.pem), and the client private key (clientkey.pem). Configure the following relations in the client host's :ref:`krb5.conf(5)` file in the appropriate :ref:`realms` subsection:: pkinit_anchors = FILE:/etc/krb5/cacert.pem pkinit_identities = FILE:/etc/krb5/client.pem,/etc/krb5/clientkey.pem Adjust the pathnames to match the paths of the three files. If the KDC and client are properly configured, it should now be possible to run ``kinit username`` without entering a password. .. _anonymous_pkinit: Anonymous PKINIT ---------------- Anonymity support in Kerberos allows a client to obtain a ticket without authenticating as any particular principal. Such a ticket can be used as a FAST armor ticket, or to securely communicate with an application server anonymously. To configure anonymity support, you must follow the steps above for generating a KDC certificate and configuring the KDC host, but you do not need to generate any client certificates. On the KDC, you must set the **pkinit_identity** variable to provide the KDC certificate, but do not need to set the **pkinit_anchors** variable or store the cacert.pem file if you won't have any client certificates to verify. On client hosts, you must store the cacert.pem file and set the **pkinit_anchors** variable in order to verify the KDC certificate, but do not need to set the **pkinit_identities** variable. Anonymity support is not enabled by default. To enable it, you must create the principal ``WELLKNOWN/ANONYMOUS`` using the command:: kadmin -q 'addprinc -randkey WELLKNOWN/ANONYMOUS' Some Kerberos deployments include application servers which lack proper access control, and grant some level of access to any user who can authenticate. In such an environment, enabling anonymity support on the KDC would present a security issue. If you need to enable anonymity support for TGTs (for use as FAST armor tickets) without enabling anonymous authentication to application servers, you can set the variable **restrict_anonymous_to_tgt** to ``true`` in the appropriate :ref:`kdc_realms` subsection of the KDC's :ref:`kdc.conf(5)` file. To obtain anonymous credentials on a client, run ``kinit -n``, or ``kinit -n @REALMNAME`` to specify a realm. The resulting tickets will have the client name ``WELLKNOWN/ANONYMOUS@WELLKNOWN:ANONYMOUS``.