krb5 commit [krb5-1.17]: Document necessary delay in master key rolllover
Greg Hudson <[email protected]>
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https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/91f331c507f6d36906b8432485b9b639c31ebff2 commit 91f331c507f6d36906b8432485b9b639c31ebff2 Author: Greg Hudson <[email protected]> Date: Mon Nov 26 13:37:46 2018 -0500 Document necessary delay in master key rolllover During master key rollover, if the old master key is purged immediately after updating principal encryption, running processes may not successfully update their in-memory copies of the master key. Document that the administrator should delay purging the master key until after propagation and some daemon activity. (cherry picked from commit 24425b730161c3d27d86a7ae0caa2305f70167f6) ticket: 8744 version_fixed: 1.17 doc/admin/database.rst | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/admin/database.rst b/doc/admin/database.rst index 14c145b..2b02af3 100644 --- a/doc/admin/database.rst +++ b/doc/admin/database.rst @@ -535,6 +535,10 @@ availability. To roll over the master key, follow these steps: use unlocked iteration; this variant will take longer, but will keep the database available to the KDC and kadmind while it runs. +#. Wait until the above changes have propagated to all replica KDCs + and until all running KDC and kadmind processes have serviced + requests using updated principal entries. + #. On the master KDC, run ``kdb5_util purge_mkeys`` to clean up the old master key.