OS: Mostly Redhat 9 but also Solaris 8. PAM/krb5 details at end of email.
Although our passwd information on those RH and Solaris machines uses NIS,
we recently migrated the authentication aspect from NIS to Kerberos (on
Active Directory).
Since then I have noticed that each machine's "/tmp" contains lots of
files with names of the form "/tmp/krb5<NIS-domain>_<uid>_<random>" on
Redhat (on Solaris it is the simpler "/tmp/krb5<NIS-domain>_<uid>").
These seem to persist for days after the session that generates them has
gone. Generally this is not a problem. But our email machines have a
very high daily quantity of IMAP and POP sessions, so the sheer quantity
of these files has a significant impact on filespace (we currently have
over 350,000 such files on one machine).
Presumably these files have no relevance after the initiating IMAP or POP
session has gone away. Is there something we can do in PAM (or krb5.conf
or elsewhere) so it tidies up after itself? Have we missed something?
Currently we have (on Redhat):
/etc/pam.d/imap:
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
/etc/pam.d/pop:
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
/etc/pam.d/system-auth:
auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so
auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok
auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_krb5.so use_first_pass
auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
account [default=bad success=ok user_unknown=ignore service_err=ignore system_err=ignore] /lib/security/$ISA/pam_krb5.so
password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 type=
password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok shadow nis
password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_krb5.so use_authtok
password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
session optional /lib/security/$ISA/pam_krb5.so
/etc/krb5.conf:
...
[libdefaults]
ticket_lifetime = 24000
...
[appdefaults]
pam = {
debug = false
ticket_lifetime = 36000
renew_lifetime = 36000
forwardable = true
krb4_convert = false
}
Thanks in advance.
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