Kerberos (was: Firewall PKI integration requirements)

[ArkanoiD <ark () eltex net>]

nuqneH,

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 09:39:02PM -0700, Carson Gaspar wrote:
> --On Friday, August 18, 2006 7:48 PM +0400 ArkanoiD <ark () eltex net> wrote:
>
> > What PKI integration/certificate management functions you people
> > expect to see on the firewall? Manual import, LDAP integration
> > (exactly how?), CRL management features (which way)? Please describe me
> > in details as i am going to implement those for IPSec, SSL/TLS
> > and maybe other crypto functons. Is Kerberos still considered alive
> > and widely deployed? Should i support it, which way?
>
> I'm not sure if you're asking about krb5/PKI, or other uses of kerberos. 

I was talking about PKI in general and Kerberos as yet another infrastructure
thing.

> Kerberos V is certainly very alive for authentication. My expectation would 
> be _minimally_ to support it as an authentication back-end. Kerberized 
> logins to the firewall itself (via ssh GSSAPI, ktelnet, or whatever) would 
> also be a very good idea, especially if you support krb5 principle ACLs 
> (e.g. gaspac/admin () EXAMPLE COM may log in with admin privs). Supporting 
> krshd pass-through would be nice (it's annoyingly just slightly different 
> from rshd, as I recall from my fwtk/Gauntlet days).

Well, what is the desired deployment scenario? Where do i place kdc?

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