Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-19 Thread Ken Raeburn
How do you allow principal creation with no random keys? I hope this means with no password as well. At the moment, I don't think it's possible in the MIT code. But with PKINIT, we may want to change that. Also with PKINIT, it is window's specific. right? Um, no, but MIT isn't

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-18 Thread Fariba
Your case is a good example. How do you allow principal creation with no random keys? I hope this means with no password as well. Also with PKINIT, it is window's specific. right? And still user needs to have the password set first and then PKINIT comes to picture. right? As admin we want to

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-17 Thread ronnie sahlberg
a principal witout its associated password would be pointless for kerberos since that account would not be able to use tickets that by definition are encrypted with a key based on said accounts password. i.e. no On 8/17/06, Fariba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a principal

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-17 Thread Juliet Kemp
Fariba wrote: Is it possible to create a principal without password in kerberos? Thank you. You can create a principal with a random key (password) by using the -randkey option (i.e. in kadmin, 'addprinc -randkey user'). You can then extract this to a keytab, and use the keytab to authorise

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-17 Thread Ken Raeburn
(PLEASE don't include kerberos-announce in the recipient list on queries. It's just more work for us to go delete the messages from the moderation queue.) On Aug 17, 2006, at 06:07, ronnie sahlberg wrote: a principal witout its associated password would be pointless for kerberos since that

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-17 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:20, Fariba wrote: Thank you and others for replying. If we use the randkey option to create the principal and do not transfer it to the keytab (if you transfer it to the keytab, I assume anyone typing the username is authenticated, so it is nor secure), is there a

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-17 Thread Fariba
Thank you and others for replying. If we use the randkey option to create the principal and do not transfer it to the keytab (if you transfer it to the keytab, I assume anyone typing the username is authenticated, so it is nor secure), is there a way to set the real password? Using k_chpass

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-17 Thread Fariba
Could you elaborate on that? Ken Raeburn wrote: On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:20, Fariba wrote: Thank you and others for replying. If we use the randkey option to create the principal and do not transfer it to the keytab (if you transfer it to the keytab, I assume anyone typing the username is

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-17 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:38, Fariba wrote: Could you elaborate on that? Ken Raeburn wrote: You'd need some sort of administrator access, either through the kadmin protocol, or the set/change password protocol being worked on in the IETF. An administrator could change the password with kadmin's

Re: Creation of principal without password

2006-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Fariba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you elaborate on that? In order to change the key of a principal, you need administrative access to the KDC database, either through kadmin.local, the kadmin network protocol, or something like the password change protocol (which is only

Creation of principal without password

2006-08-16 Thread Fariba
Is it possible to create a principal without password in kerberos? Thank you. Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos