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<title>SSSD Manual pages</title>
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    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>sssd-krb5</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
        <refmiscinfo class="manual">File Formats and Conventions</refmiscinfo>
    </refmeta>

    <refnamediv id='name'>
        <refname>sssd-krb5</refname>
        <refpurpose>the configuration file for SSSD</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>

    <refsect1 id='description'>
        <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
        <para>
            This manual page describes the configuration of the Kerberos
            5 authentication backend for
            <citerefentry>
                <refentrytitle>sssd</refentrytitle>
                <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry>.
            For a detailed syntax reference, please refer to the <quote>FILE FORMAT</quote> section of the
            <citerefentry>
                <refentrytitle>sssd.conf</refentrytitle>
                <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> manual page.
        </para>
        <para>
            The Kerberos 5 authentication backend contains auth and chpass
            providers. It must be paired with an identity provider in
            order to function properly (for example, id_provider = ldap). Some
            information required by the Kerberos 5 authentication backend must
            be provided by the identity provider, such as the user's Kerberos
            Principal Name (UPN). The configuration of the identity provider
            should have an entry to specify the UPN. Please refer to the man
            page for the applicable identity provider for details on how to
            configure this.
        </para>
        <para>
            This backend also provides access control based on the .k5login
            file in the home directory of the user. See <citerefentry>
            <refentrytitle>.k5login</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> for more details. Please note that an empty .k5login
            file will deny all access to this user. To activate this feature,
            use 'access_provider = krb5' in your SSSD configuration.
        </para>
        <para>
            In the case where the UPN is not available in the identity backend,
            <command>sssd</command> will construct a UPN using the format
            <replaceable>username</replaceable>@<replaceable>krb5_realm</replaceable>.
        </para>

    </refsect1>

    <refsect1 id='file-format'>
        <title>CONFIGURATION OPTIONS</title>
        <para>
            If the auth-module krb5 is used in an SSSD domain, the following
            options must be used. See the
            <citerefentry>
                <refentrytitle>sssd.conf</refentrytitle>
                <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> manual page, section <quote>DOMAIN SECTIONS</quote>,
            for details on the configuration of an SSSD domain.
            <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_server, krb5_backup_server (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Specifies the comma-separated list of IP addresses or hostnames
                            of the Kerberos servers to which SSSD should
                            connect, in the order of preference. For more
                            information on failover and server redundancy,
                            see the <quote>FAILOVER</quote> section. An optional
                            port number (preceded by a colon) may be appended to
                            the addresses or hostnames.
                            If empty, service discovery is enabled;
                            for more information, refer to the
                            <quote>SERVICE DISCOVERY</quote> section.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            When using service discovery for KDC or kpasswd servers,
                            SSSD first searches for DNS entries that specify _udp as
                            the protocol and falls back to _tcp if none are found.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            This option was named <quote>krb5_kdcip</quote> in
                            earlier releases of SSSD. While the legacy name is recognized
                            for the time being, users are advised to migrate their config
                            files to use <quote>krb5_server</quote> instead.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_realm (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            The name of the Kerberos realm. This option is required
                            and must be specified.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_kpasswd, krb5_backup_kpasswd (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            If the change password service is not running on the
                            KDC, alternative servers can be defined here. An
                            optional port number (preceded by a colon) may be
                            appended to the addresses or hostnames.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            For more information on failover and server
                            redundancy, see the <quote>FAILOVER</quote> section.
                            NOTE: Even if there are no more kpasswd
                            servers to try, the backend is not switched to operate offline
                            if authentication against the KDC is still possible.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: Use the KDC
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_ccachedir (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Directory to store credential caches. All the
                            substitution sequences of krb5_ccname_template can
                            be used here, too, except %d and %P. If the
                            directory does not exist, it will be created. If %u,
                            %U, %p or %h are used, a private directory belonging
                            to the user is created. Otherwise, a public directory
                            with restricted deletion flag (aka sticky bit, as
                            described in
                            <citerefentry>
                                <refentrytitle>chmod</refentrytitle>
                                <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
                            </citerefentry> for details) is created.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: /tmp
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_ccname_template (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Location of the user's credential cache. Two credential
                            cache types are currently supported: <quote>FILE</quote>
                            and <quote>DIR</quote>. The cache can be specified either
                            as <replaceable>TYPE:RESIDUAL</replaceable>, or as an absolute
                            path, which implies the <quote>FILE</quote> type. In the
                            template, the following sequences are substituted:
                            <variablelist>
                                <varlistentry>
                                    <term>%u</term>
                                    <listitem><para>login name</para></listitem>
                                </varlistentry>
                                <varlistentry>
                                    <term>%U</term>
                                    <listitem><para>login UID</para></listitem>
                                </varlistentry>
                                <varlistentry>
                                    <term>%p</term>
                                    <listitem><para>principal name</para>
                                    </listitem>
                                </varlistentry>
                                <varlistentry>
                                    <term>%r</term>
                                    <listitem><para>realm name</para></listitem>
                                </varlistentry>
                                <varlistentry>
                                    <term>%h</term>
                                    <listitem><para>home directory</para>
                                    </listitem>
                                </varlistentry>
                                <varlistentry>
                                    <term>%d</term>
                                    <listitem><para>value of krb5ccache_dir
                                              </para>
                                    </listitem>
                                </varlistentry>
                                <varlistentry>
                                    <term>%P</term>
                                    <listitem><para>the process ID of the SSSD
                                                    client</para>
                                    </listitem>
                                </varlistentry>
                                <varlistentry>
                                    <term>%%</term>
                                    <listitem><para>a literal '%'</para>
                                    </listitem>
                                </varlistentry>
                            </variablelist>
                            If the template ends with 'XXXXXX' mkstemp(3) is
                            used to create a unique filename in a safe way.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: FILE:%d/krb5cc_%U_XXXXXX
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_auth_timeout (integer)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Timeout in seconds after an online authentication request
                            or change password request is aborted. If possible, the
                            authentication request is continued offline.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: 6
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_validate (boolean)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Verify with the help of krb5_keytab that the TGT
                            obtained has not been spoofed. The keytab is checked for
                            entries sequentially, and the first entry with a matching
                            realm is used for validation. If no entry matches the realm, the last
                            entry in the keytab is used. This process can be used to validate
                            environments using cross-realm trust by placing the appropriate
                            keytab entry as the last entry or the only entry in the keytab file.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: false
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_keytab (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            The location of the keytab to use when validating
                            credentials obtained from KDCs.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: /etc/krb5.keytab
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_store_password_if_offline (boolean)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Store the password of the user if the provider is
                            offline and use it to request a TGT when the
                            provider comes online again.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            NOTE: this feature is only available on Linux.
                            Passwords stored in this way are kept in
                            plaintext in the kernel keyring and are
                            potentially accessible by the root user
                            (with difficulty).
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: false
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_renewable_lifetime (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Request a renewable ticket with a total
                            lifetime, given as an integer immediately followed
                            by a time unit:
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>s</emphasis> for seconds
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>m</emphasis> for minutes
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>h</emphasis> for hours
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>d</emphasis> for days.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            If there is no unit given, <emphasis>s</emphasis> is
                            assumed.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            NOTE: It is not possible to mix units.  To set
                            the renewable lifetime to one and a half hours,
                            use '90m' instead of '1h30m'.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: not set, i.e. the TGT is not renewable
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_lifetime (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Request ticket with a with a lifetime, given as an
                            integer immediately followed by a time unit:
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>s</emphasis> for seconds
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>m</emphasis> for minutes
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>h</emphasis> for hours
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>d</emphasis> for days.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            If there is no unit given <emphasis>s</emphasis> is
                            assumed.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            NOTE: It is not possible to mix units.
                            To set the lifetime to one and a half
                            hours please use '90m' instead of '1h30m'.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: not set, i.e. the default ticket lifetime
                            configured on the KDC.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_renew_interval (integer)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            The time in seconds between two checks if the TGT
                            should be renewed. TGTs are renewed if about half
                            of their lifetime is exceeded.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                             If this option is not set or is 0 the automatic
                             renewal is disabled.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: not set
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_use_fast (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Enables flexible authentication secure tunneling
                            (FAST) for Kerberos pre-authentication. The
                            following options are supported:
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>never</emphasis> use FAST. This is
                            equivalent to not setting this option at all.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>try</emphasis> to use FAST. If the server
                            does not support FAST, continue the
                            authentication without it.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            <emphasis>demand</emphasis> to use FAST. The
                            authentication fails if the server does not
                            require fast.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            Default: not set, i.e. FAST is not used.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            NOTE: a keytab is required to use FAST.
                        </para>
                        <para>
                            NOTE: SSSD supports FAST only with
                            MIT Kerberos version 1.8 and later. If SSSD is used
                            with an older version of MIT Kerberos, using this
                            option is a configuration error.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_fast_principal (string)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Specifies the server principal to use for FAST.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

                <varlistentry>
                    <term>krb5_canonicalize (boolean)</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Specifies if the host and user principal should be
                            canonicalized. This feature is available with MIT
                            Kerberos 1.7 and later versions.
                        </para>

                        <para>
                            Default: false
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>

            </variablelist>
        </para>
    </refsect1>

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    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="include/service_discovery.xml" />

    <refsect1 id='example'>
        <title>EXAMPLE</title>
        <para>
            The following example assumes that SSSD is correctly
            configured and FOO is one of the domains in the
            <replaceable>[sssd]</replaceable> section. This example shows
            only configuration of Kerberos authentication; it does not include
            any identity provider.
        </para>
        <para>
<programlisting>
    [domain/FOO]
    auth_provider = krb5
    krb5_server = 192.168.1.1
    krb5_realm = EXAMPLE.COM
</programlisting>
        </para>
    </refsect1>

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