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Re: pam_krb5 and user logout



On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:37:21PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 13:04, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:57:40PM -0200, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> > > Any thoughts on having pam_krb5 or something else run kdestroy
> > > when the user logouts from the workstation?

> > It is essential that pam_krb5 do so.  In order to handle this cleanly, 
> > pam_krb5 should by default establish a ccache using mktemp() (or the
> > secure equivalent for a given platform) and store any credentials there, 
> > rather than trying to use a 'global' ccache such as /tmp/krb5cc_uid.  
> > This way, it's assured that any credentials in that ccache belong to the 
> > current session, and can be safely destroyed at logout.

> To make this work with Solaris with GSS-API'd file systems, how about
> the first login creates /tmp/krb5cc_uid and creats a hard link with a
> random name to that file.  Each subsequent login by the same user would
> add another hard link.  When logout happens, if nlink on /tmp/krb5cc_uid
> is 2, then it removes /tmp/krb5cc_uid and its private copy of it.  Else,
> it only removes its private copy.

It's not clear to me why Solaris needs the credentials to be in
/tmp/krb5cc_uid.  Does the Kerberos implementation used by Solaris not 
look to $KRB5CCNAME for the name of its ccache?  If that's the case, 
then certainly the scheme can be modified to accomodate special needs; 
the important thing is that credentials files are cleaned up when 
they're no longer used, rather than leaving them lying around on the 
filesystem.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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