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kstart 4.3
(kinit daemon with keytab, renewal, and AFS support)
Maintained by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
Copyright 2015, 2021 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>. Copyright
1995-1997, 1999-2002, 2004-2012, 2014 The Board of Trustees of the
Leland Stanford Junior University. This software is distributed under a
BSD-style license. Please see the section LICENSE below for more
information.
BLURB
k5start and krenew are modified versions of kinit which add support for
running as a daemon to maintain a ticket cache, running a command with
credentials from a keytab and maintaining a ticket cache until that
command completes, obtaining AFS tokens (via an external aklog) after
obtaining tickets, and creating an AFS PAG for a command. They are
primarily useful in conjunction with long-running jobs; for moving
ticket handling code out of servers, cron jobs, or daemons; and to
obtain tickets and AFS tokens with a single command.
DESCRIPTION
k5start is a modified version of kinit. It can be used as a substitute
for kinit (with some additional helpful options), but it can also obtain
credentials automatically from a keytab. It can run as a daemon, waking
up periodically to refresh credentials using that keytab, and can also
check for the validity of tickets and only refresh if they're no longer
valid.
Some of these capabilities have been included in Kerberos's kinit, but
the ability to maintain tickets while running as a daemon has not and is
useful for servers that need to use Kerberos. Using kstart allows the
ticket handling to be moved out of the server into a separate process
dedicated just to that purpose.
k5start can optionally run an external program whenever the ticket is
refreshed to obtain an AFS token, and therefore can be used in
conjunction with a program like aklog or afslog to maintain an AFS
token. When built with support for AFS PAGs, it can also put the
program in its own PAG so that its authentication doesn't affect any
other programs.
krenew is identical to k5start except that rather than obtaining new
tickets from a password or keytab, it renews an existing renewable
ticket cache. It can be used to periodically renew tickets and
optionally AFS tokens for long-running processes in cases where using a
keytab is inappropriate (such as users running their own jobs with their
own credentials).
REQUIREMENTS
As Kerberos programs, k5start and krenew require Kerberos libraries to
link against. They have only been thoroughly tested with the MIT
Kerberos and Heimdal libraries on Debian, but should work with the
included Kerberos libraries on many other platforms.
Other than that, all you should need is a suitable C compiler. Neither
program has been tested on non-Unix systems.
If you want the -t option to work, you need a program to obtain AFS
tokens from Kerberos tickets. You can specify the program to use on
your system with the --with-aklog option to configure; if that option is
not given, the first of aklog or afslog that is found on your path at
configure time will be used.
For AFS PAG support, one of Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris 11, the kafs
library that comes with either Heimdal or KTH Kerberos, the kopenafs
library that comes with newer OpenAFS, AFS header files (on any other
platform besides AIX or IRIX), or AFS libraries (on AIX and IRIX) is
required. AIX binaries with AFS PAG support may not run on AIX systems
that do not have an AFS client installed due to how AIX handles system
calls.
To bootstrap from a Git checkout, or if you change the Automake files
and need to regenerate Makefile.in, you will need Automake 1.11 or
later. For bootstrap or if you change configure.ac or any of the m4
files it includes and need to regenerate configure or config.h.in, you
will need Autoconf 2.64 or later. Perl is also required to generate
manual pages from a fresh Git checkout.
BUILDING AND INSTALLATION
You can build and install kstart with the standard commands:
./configure
make
make install
If you are building from a Git clone, first run ./bootstrap in the
source directory to generate the build files. make install will
probably have to be done as root. Building outside of the source
directory is also supported, if you wish, by creating an empty directory
and then running configure with the correct relative path.
If you are using aklog, afslog, or some other program to obtain AFS
tokens, give its path to configure with the --with-aklog option, as in:
./configure --with-aklog=/usr/local/bin/aklog
This program will be run when the -t option is given to k5start or
krenew.
To enable support for AFS PAGs, pass the --enable-setpag flag to
configure. It is not enabled by default. On platforms other than Linux
and without the kafs library, you will need to add the --with-afs flag
specifying the location of your AFS includes and libraries unless
they're on your standard search path. For example:
./configure --enable-setpag --with-afs=/usr/afsws
When enabled, k5start and krenew will always create a new PAG before
authentication when running a specific command and when aklog is being
run.
When using the Linux kafs module, the correct way to isolate kafs
credentials is to create a new session keyring rather than a new PAG.
This requires the libkeyutils library. configure will attempt to
discover that library automatically and link with it by default. Pass
the --with-libkeyutils, --with-libkeyutils-include, or
--with-libkeyutils-lib options to configure to specify a different path
to that library, or set the LIBKEYUTILS_* environment variables.
Normally, configure will use krb5-config to determine the flags to use
to compile with your Kerberos libraries. To specify a particular
krb5-config script to use, either set the PATH_KRB5_CONFIG environment
variable or pass it to configure like:
./configure PATH_KRB5_CONFIG=/path/to/krb5-config
If krb5-config isn't found, configure will look for the standard
Kerberos libraries in locations already searched by your compiler. If
the the krb5-config script first in your path is not the one
corresponding to the Kerberos libraries you want to use, or if your
Kerberos libraries and includes aren't in a location searched by default
by your compiler, you need to specify a different Kerberos installation
root via --with-krb5=PATH. For example:
./configure --with-krb5=/usr/pubsw
You can also individually set the paths to the include directory and the
library directory with --with-krb5-include and --with-krb5-lib. You may
need to do this if Autoconf can't figure out whether to use lib, lib32,
or lib64 on your platform.
To not use krb5-config and force library probing even if there is a
krb5-config script on your path, set PATH_KRB5_CONFIG to a nonexistent
path:
./configure PATH_KRB5_CONFIG=/nonexistent
krb5-config is not used and library probing is always done if either
--with-krb5-include or --with-krb5-lib are given.
Pass --enable-silent-rules to configure for a quieter build (similar to
the Linux kernel). Use make warnings instead of make to build with full
compiler warnings (requires either GCC or Clang and may require a
relatively current version of the compiler).
You can pass the --enable-reduced-depends flag to configure to try to
minimize the shared library dependencies encoded in the binaries. This
omits from the link line all the libraries included solely because other
libraries depend on them and instead links the programs only against
libraries whose APIs are called directly. This will only work with
shared libraries and will only work on platforms where shared libraries
properly encode their own dependencies (this includes most modern
platforms such as all Linux). It is intended primarily for building
packages for Linux distributions to avoid encoding unnecessary shared
library dependencies that make shared library migrations more difficult.
If none of the above made any sense to you, don't bother with this flag.
TESTING
In order to test the client in a meaningful way, you will need to do
some preparatory work before running the test suite. Follow the
instructions in tests/data/README first. Then, you can run the test
suite with:
make check
If a test fails, you can run a single test with verbose output via:
tests/runtests -o <name-of-test>
Do this instead of running the test program directly since it will
ensure that necessary environment variables are set up.
Perl 5.008 or later and the kinit and klist programs from MIT Kerberos,
not Heimdal, are required to run the test suite. The following
additional Perl modules will be used by the test suite if present:
* Test::Pod
* Test::Spelling
To enable tests that don't detect functionality problems but are used to
sanity-check the release, set the environment variable RELEASE_TESTING
to a true value. To enable tests that may be sensitive to the local
environment or that produce a lot of false positives without uncovering
many problems, set the environment variable AUTHOR_TESTING to a true
value.
THANKS
To Navid Golpayegani, for contributing the initial implementation of the
-b option to background after the initial authentication and the -p
option to save the PID in a file.
To Buck Huppmann, for contributing an RPM spec file and suggesting
krenew.
To Adam Megacz, for pointing out that checking the executability of the
aklog program isn't necessary and for contributing the code to propagate
signals to a child process.
To Quanah Gibson-Mount, for pointing out various build system issues and
missing documentation.
To Sidney Cammeresi, for catching a missing include in krenew and for
providing information and suggestions about Mac OS X's default ticket
cache and its effects on the -b option of k5start and krenew.
To Thomas Kula, for pointing out that k_hasafs has to be called before
k_setpag when using the kafs functions.
To Thomas Weiss, for noticing that code restructuring caused the
argument to -H to be ignored in k5start and that -H and -K should be
diagnosed as mutually exclusive.
To Howard Wilkinson, for the initial version of the -o, -g, and -m
support and further debugging of it.
To Sascha Tandel, for the initial version of -c support and reports of
build problems when the AFS libauthent and libafsrpc libraries didn't
work.
To Gautam Iyer, for the initial version of -H support in krenew.
To Mike Horansky, for the idea of copying the current ticket cache when
running krenew with a command, thereby saving the ticket cache from
destruction when the user logs out.
SUPPORT
The kstart web page at:
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/
will always have the current version of this package, the current
documentation, and pointers to any additional resources.
For bug tracking, use the issue tracker on GitHub:
https://github.com/rra/kstart/issues
However, please be aware that I tend to be extremely busy and work
projects often take priority. I'll save your report and get to it as
soon as I can, but it may take me a couple of months.
SOURCE REPOSITORY
kstart is maintained using Git. You can access the current source on
GitHub at:
https://github.com/rra/kstart
or by cloning the repository at:
https://git.eyrie.org/git/kerberos/kstart.git
or view the repository via the web at:
https://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/kstart.git
The eyrie.org repository is the canonical one, maintained by the author,
but using GitHub is probably more convenient for most purposes. Pull
requests are gratefully reviewed and normally accepted.
LICENSE
The kstart package as a whole is covered by the following copyright
statement and license:
Copyright 2015, 2021 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
Copyright 1995-1997, 1999-2002, 2004-2012, 2014
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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