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NAME

       sssd-krb5 - the configuration file for SSSD

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page describes the configuration of the Kerberos 5
       authentication backend for sssd(8). For a detailed syntax reference,
       please refer to the "FILE FORMAT" section of the sssd.conf(5) manual
       page

       The Kerberos 5 authentication backend does not contain an identity
       provider and must be paired with one in order to function properly (for
       example, id_provider = ldap). Some information required by the Kerberos
       5 authentication backend must be provided by the identity provider,
       such as the user's Kerberos Principal Name (UPN). The configuration of
       the identity provider should have an entry to specify the UPN. Please
       refer to the man page for the applicable identity provider for details
       on how to configure this.

       In the case where the UPN is not available in the identity backend sssd
       will construct a UPN using the format username@krb5_realm.

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

       If the auth-module krb5 is used in a SSSD domain, the following options
       must be used. See the sssd.conf(5) manual page, section "DOMAIN
       SECTIONS" for details on the configuration of a SSSD domain.

       krb5_kdcip (string)
           Specifies the list of IP addresses or hostnames of the Kerberos
           servers to which SSSD should connect in the order of preference.
           For more information on failover and server redundancy, see the
           "FAILOVER" section. An optional port number (preceded by a colon)
           may be appended to the addresses or hostnames. If empty, service
           discovery is enabled - for more information, refer to the "SERVICE
           DISCOVERY" section.

       krb5_realm (string)
           The name of the Kerberos realm. This option is required and must be
           specified.

       krb5_kpasswd (string)
           If the change password service is not running on the KDC
           alternative servers can be defined here. An optional port number
           (preceded by a colon) may be appended to the addresses or
           hostnames.

           For more information on failover and server redundancy, see the
           "FAILOVER" section. Please note that even if there are no more
           kpasswd servers to try the back end is not switch to offline if
           authentication against the KDC is still possible.

           Default: Use the KDC

       krb5_ccachedir (string)
           Directory to store credential caches. All the substitution
           sequences of krb5_ccname_template can be used here, too, except %d
           and %P. If the directory does not exist it will be created. If %u,
           %U, %p or %h are used a private directory belonging to the user is
           created. Otherwise a public directory with restricted deletion flag
           (aka sticky bit, see chmod(1) for details) is created.

           Default: /tmp

       krb5_ccname_template (string)
           Location of the user's credential cache. Currently only file based
           credential caches are supported. In the template the following
           sequences are substituted:

           %u
               login name

           %U
               login UID

           %p
               principal name

           %r
               realm name

           %h
               home directory

           %d
               value of krb5ccache_dir

           %P
               the process ID of the sssd client

           %%
               a literal '%'

           If the template ends with 'XXXXXX' mkstemp(3) is used to create a
           unique filename in a safe way.

           Default: FILE:%d/krb5cc_%U_XXXXXX

       krb5_auth_timeout (integer)
           Timeout in seconds after an online authentication or change
           password request is aborted. If possible the authentication request
           is continued offline.

           Default: 15

       krb5_validate (boolean)
           Verify with the help of krb5_keytab that the TGT obtained has not
           been spoofed.

           Default: false

       krb5_keytab (string)
           The location of the keytab to use when validating credentials
           obtained from KDCs.

           Default: /etc/krb5.keytab

       krb5_store_password_if_offline (boolean)
           Store the password of the user if the provider is offline and use
           it to request a TGT when the provider gets online again.

           Please note that this feature currently only available on a Linux
           plattform.

           Default: false

FAILOVER

       The failover feature allows back ends to automatically switch to a
       different server if the primary server fails.

   Failover Syntax
       The list of servers is given as a comma-separated list; any number of
       spaces is allowed around the comma. The servers are listed in order of
       preference. The list can contain any number of servers.

   The Failover Mechanism
       The failover mechanism distinguishes between a machine and a service.
       The back end first tries to resolve the hostname of a given machine; if
       this resolution attempt fails, the machine is considered offline. No
       further attempts are made to connect to this machine for any other
       service. If the resolution attempt succeeds, the back end tries to
       connect to a service on this machine. If the service connection attempt
       fails, then only this particular service is considered offline and the
       back end automatically switches over to the next service. The machine
       is still considered online and might still be tried for another
       service.

       Further connection attempts are made to machines or services marked as
       offline after a specified period of time; this is currently hard coded
       to 30 seconds.

       If there are no more machines to try, the back end as a whole switches
       to offline mode, and then attempts to reconnect every 30 seconds.

SERVICE DISCOVERY

       The service discovery feature allows back ends to automatically find
       the appropriate servers to connect to using a special DNS query.

   Configuration
       If no servers are specified, the back end automatically uses service
       discovery to try to find a server. Optionally, the user may choose to
       use both fixed server addresses and service discovery by inserting a
       special keyword, "_srv_", in the list of servers. The order of
       preference is maintained. This feature is useful if, for example, the
       user prefers to use service discovery whenever possible, and fall back
       to a specific server when no servers can be discovered using DNS.

   The domain name
       The name of the SSSD domain is used as the domain part of the service
       discovery DNS query.

   See Also
       For more information on the service discovery mechanism, refer to RFC
       2782.

EXAMPLE

       The following example assumes that SSSD is correctly configured and FOO
       is one of the domains in the [sssd] section. This example shows only
       configuration of Kerberos authentication, it does not include any
       identity provider.

               [domain/FOO]
               auth_provider = krb5
               krb5_kdcip = 192.168.1.1
               krb5_realm = EXAMPLE.COM

SEE ALSO

       sssd.conf(5), sssd-ldap(5), sssd(8)

AUTHORS

       The SSSD upstream - http://fedorahosted.org/sssd