Re: v4.0 CB_COMPOUND authentication failures

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On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:27:01 -0400
Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 12:44 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > 
> > I think that's what happens. We only fall back to using AUTH_SYS if
> > nfs_create_rpc_client returns -EINVAL. In the event that the security
> > negotiation fails, we should get back -EACCES and that should bubble
> > back up to userland.
> > 
> > The real problem is that gssd (and also the krb5 libs themselves) will
> > try to canonicalize the name. The resulting host portion of the SPN
> > may bear no resemblance to the hostname in the device string. In fact,
> > if you mount using an IP address then you're pretty much SOL.
> 
> If you mount by IP do you really care about krb5 ? Probably not, maybe
> that's a clue we should not even try ...
> 

It's certainly possible that someone passes in an IP address but then
says "-o sec=krb5". It has worked in the past, so it's hard to know
whether and how many people actually depend on it.

> > I haven't tried it yet, but it looks reasonably trivial to fix gssd
> > not to bother with DNS at all and just rely on the hostname. That
> > won't stop the krb5 libs from doing their canonicalization though. I'm
> > not sure if there's some way to ask the krb5 libs to avoid doing that.
> 
> [libdefaults]
> rdns = false
> 
> And I think we change the default to false in Fedora/RHEL lately ...
> 
> Simo.
> 

That's a step in the right direction, but I think that the rdns just
makes it skip the reverse lookup. AFAIK, the MIT libs will still do
getaddrinfo and scrape out the ai_canonname and use that in preference
to the hostname you pass in.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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