RE: User database requirements for PKINIT

[Nicolas.Williams@ubsw.com]

There are several modes of operation with PKINIT. One
envisions the KDC issuing tickets to users who lack KDB
principal records but who have trusted certs; in this mode the
users get principal names based on their certs' names. Another
envisions using PKI merely for pre-authentication, but with
the user needing to have a principal.

I know little about the Heimdal beta PKINIT implementation,
but from what you say I'd imagine it does not support user
principal-less PKINIT, yet.

Cheers,

Nico
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher James [mailto:cjames@berkeley.innomedia.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:40 PM
> To: heimdal-discuss@sics.se
> Subject: User database requirements for PKINIT
> 
> 
> I am runing  Heimdal with the pre-beta PKINIT patch (posted May 15
> 2002).
> To get it to work with a principal, I first had to add the 
> principal to
> the database
> using the kadmin add command.  If the principal is not in the 
> data base
> when I
> send an AS-REQ message (with pkinit), I recieve a KRB_ERROR message
> with "client unknown".   Is this the expected behavior - in 
> other words
> must
> the principal be in the database before an AS-REQ  (with pkinit) will
> work (for
> this version and future versions of PKINIT).  Thanks.
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 

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