Re: Debugging why KRB5_KTNAME isn't working

Simo Sorce <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.general
Organization Red Hat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 15:34 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 20:31 +0100, Jochen Kellner wrote:
> > 
> > I once configured postfix to uses sasl:
> > 
> > main.cf:83:smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> 
> I do have that already.
> 
> > And in  /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf:
> 
> Hrm.  I don't have this file.  But I never did and this all worked
> prior to a few days ago when the machine was upgraded from EL7 to EL8,
> which unsurprisingly upgrades a lot of things in big jumps.  So maybe
> this is now necessary.
> 
> Ahh.  Looking at smtpd's strace output, it seems it's looking in
> /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf on my machine and I do have that file with:
> 
> pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> mech_list: gssapi plain login
> 
> > keytab: /etc/smtp.keytab
> 
> And indeed, winner winner, chicken dinner!  Adding a "keytab:
> /etc/postfix/smtp.keytab" to that file is making smtpd use the correct
> keytab file now.
> 
> So this must all be new behavior in some upgraded versions.

The keytab option for the cyrus-sasl gssapi plugin is somewhat new
(considering that RHEL-8 is almost 3 years old now) and is probably
causing the change in behavior wrt environment variables that you are
experiencing.

-- 
Simo Sorce
RHEL Crypto Team
Red Hat, Inc




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