[OpenAFS] afs krb5 migration
Ken Hornstein
kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:48:03 -0400
>I suppose there is a bug in the ktadd command that prevent it from
>obeying the kdc.conf configurations so that no afs-aware keys are
>generated.
Whoah, hold on a second here.
The "key salt" perhaps the most misunderstood thing in Kerberos. It
is ONLY used for converting a user's plaintext password into an encryption
key. Saying it's an "afs-aware" key is a COMPLETE misnomer. ktadd
doesn't generate those other salted keys, because they're completely
meaningless - there's no plaintext password that corresponds to the
encryption key that ktadd generates (well, there MAY be one, but we
don't know what it is :-) ). I suspect the larger problem is that the 3DES
key was confusing things in there (but I'm not sure exactly where things
were breaking).
--Ken