The problem we're seeing is that the Kerby server admin accounts aren't 
configured to be compliant with the MIT kadmin account.  Kerby allows the user 
to use a TGT to acquire a service ticket for kadmin, while MIT doesn't, so the 
auth methods are misaligned.  I've recreated some C++ libraries I wrote to do 
this a while back, hopefully I can use them to help trace through and see where 
our packets are being malformed.  

Thanks for the response, we'll keep plugging and let you know what we figure 
out.

Shawn

"The programmer … works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.
He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the 
imagination."
— Fred Brooks

Shawn Smith
Director of Software Engineering
Administrative Information Services
Penn State University
814-321-5227
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Zheng, Kai" <[email protected]>
To: "Apache Directory Developers List" <[email protected]>, 
[email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 5:48:31 PM
Subject: RE: Kerby Remote KAdmin

Hi Shawn,

I don't have a deep dive in that, but I thought what's been going is to get it 
work first in kerby remote client -> kerby admin server, in a protocol approach 
(XDR) aligned with MIT Kerberos admin. After that effort will be made to get it 
work with MIT admin using kerby admin client. Yan Yan is the major contributor 
but she had left the team so I'm not sure she will keep the contribution or 
not. Another contributor Qing from the team is working on a remote web UI 
interface at his willing.

Regards,
Kai

-----Original Message-----
From: SHAWN E SMITH [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 10:14 PM
To: Apache Directory Developers List <[email protected]>
Subject: Kerby Remote KAdmin

All,

We've been working on getting the protocol working against an MIT Kerb 
instance.  Based on byte tracing in wireshark we think we're pretty close, but 
something is still not lining up cleanly.  Has anyone else done a deep dive on 
this that may be able to provide some feedback on what we're doing?  I'd like 
to find a good way to share what we're doing, but most of it is outside of core 
kerby so I'm not sure where to put it for others to see it.

Thanks,
Shawn

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write 
code that humans can understand.
--Martin Fowler 

Shawn Smith
Director of Software Engineering
Administrative Information Services
814-321-5227
[email protected]

https://keybase.io/ussmith

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