On Wed Aug 3 10:37:45 2011, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > As a general rule, I would think that having your private key stored > somewhere that an admin other than yourself can reset the password and > have access to would be really dangerous. Most especially if this > private key was being used to access sites in other administrative > domains. > > That really sounds like an accident waiting to happen...
If you are concerned about that, then don't make use of a centralized keystore. You may be a security expert and have a deeper understanding of this than I do, but from my limited experience and knowledge of security audits and risk assessment, if you don't trust your system administrators then you have a whole heap of other issues you need to contend with. Consider that the FreeIPA server is probably *more* secure than the user-accessible systems and file servers. If someone with administrative (root) privs for the part of the system where I store my passphrase encrypted private key would be the kind of person who would take the private key from a central keystore, if it existed, then do you not think they could get my passphrase and/or cleartext private key from the system *without* a central keystore? This is not to say there aren't arguments against it: a policy mix up or a bug in the central keystore could lead to *all* users having their private keys compromised, and an admin who can dip in and grab private keys without any evidence would also be bad, but hopefully the "Audit" part of IPA means that any access to private keys will be securely logged, and flagged if they are by users other than the "owner" of the private key. This is a topic that is very important to me, so I'm quite interested to hear how my reasoning may be flawed, or to hear opinions from others. Regards, Ian
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