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45 .Oo Fl c Ar file \*(Ba Xo
46 .Fl Fl config-file= Ns Ar file
49 .Op Fl p | Fl Fl no-require-preauth
50 .Op Fl Fl max-request= Ns Ar size
51 .Op Fl H | Fl Fl enable-http
54 .Op Fl Fl kerberos4-cross-realm
55 .Oo Fl r Ar string \*(Ba Xo
56 .Fl Fl v4-realm= Ns Ar string
59 .Oo Fl P Ar portspec \*(Ba Xo
60 .Fl Fl ports= Ns Ar portspec
65 .Op Fl Fl addresses= Ns Ar list of addresses
69 serves requests for tickets.
70 When it starts, it first checks the flags passed, any options that are
71 not specified with a command line flag are taken from a config file,
72 or from a default compiled-in value.
76 .It Fl c Ar file , Fl Fl config-file= Ns Ar file
77 Specifies the location of the config file, the default is
78 .Pa /var/heimdal/kdc.conf .
79 This is the only value that can't be specified in the config file.
80 .It Fl p , Fl Fl no-require-preauth
81 Turn off the requirement for pre-autentication in the initial AS-REQ
83 The use of pre-authentication makes it more difficult to do offline
85 You might want to turn it off if you have clients
86 that don't support pre-authentication.
87 Since the version 4 protocol doesn't support any pre-authentication,
88 serving version 4 clients is just about the same as not requiring
90 The default is to require pre-authentication.
91 Adding the require-preauth per principal is a more flexible way of
93 .It Fl Fl max-request= Ns Ar size
94 Gives an upper limit on the size of the requests that the kdc is
96 .It Fl H , Fl Fl enable-http
97 Makes the kdc listen on port 80 and handle requests encapsulated in HTTP.
99 don't respond to 524 requests
101 respond to Kerberos 4 requests
102 .It Fl Fl kerberos4-cross-realm
103 respond to Kerberos 4 requests from foreign realms.
104 This is a known security hole and should not be enabled unless you
105 understand the consequences and are willing to live with them.
106 .It Fl r Ar string , Fl Fl v4-realm= Ns Ar string
107 What realm this server should act as when dealing with version 4
109 The database can contain any number of realms, but since the version 4
110 protocol doesn't contain a realm for the server, it must be explicitly
112 The default is whatever is returned by
114 This option is only available if the KDC has been compiled with version
116 .It Fl P Ar portspec , Fl Fl ports= Ns Ar portspec
117 Specifies the set of ports the KDC should listen on.
119 white-space separated list of services or port numbers.
120 .It Fl Fl addresses= Ns Ar list of addresses
121 The list of addresses to listen for requests on.
122 By default, the kdc will listen on all the locally configured
124 If only a subset is desired, or the automatic detection fails, this
125 option might be used.
127 detach from pty and run as a daemon.
128 .It Fl Fl disable-des
129 disable add des encryption types, makes the kdc not use them.
132 All activities are logged to one or more destinations, see
136 The entity used for logging is
138 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILE
139 The configuration file has the same syntax as
141 but will be read before
143 so it may override settings found there.
144 Options specific to the KDC only are found in the
147 All the command-line options can preferably be added in the
149 The only difference is the pre-authentication flag, which has to be
152 .Dl require-preauth = no
154 (in fact you can specify the option as
155 .Fl Fl require-preauth=no ) .
157 And there are some configuration options which do not have
158 command-line equivalents:
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160 .It Li enable-digest = Va boolean
161 turn on support for digest processing in the KDC.
162 The default is FALSE.
163 .It Li check-ticket-addresses = Va boolean
164 Check the addresses in the ticket when processing TGS requests.
166 .It Li allow-null-ticket-addresses = Va boolean
167 Permit tickets with no addresses.
168 This option is only relevant when check-ticket-addresses is TRUE.
169 .It Li allow-anonymous = Va boolean
170 Permit anonymous tickets with no addresses.
171 .It Li max-kdc-datagram-reply-length = Va number
172 Maximum packet size the UDP rely that the KDC will transmit, instead
173 the KDC sends back a reply telling the client to use TCP instead.
174 .It Li transited-policy = Li always-check \*(Ba \
175 Li allow-per-principal | Li always-honour-request
176 This controls how KDC requests with the
177 .Li disable-transited-check
178 flag are handled. It can be one of:
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181 Always check transited encoding, this is the default.
182 .It Li allow-per-principal
183 Currently this is identical to
185 In a future release, it will be possible to mark a principal as able
186 to handle unchecked requests.
187 .It Li always-honour-request
188 Always do what the client asked.
189 In a future release, it will be possible to force a check per
192 .It encode_as_rep_as_tgs_rep = Va boolean
193 Encode AS-Rep as TGS-Rep to be bug-compatible with old DCE code.
194 The Heimdal clients allow both.
195 .It kdc_warn_pwexpire = Va time
196 How long before password/principal expiration the KDC should start
197 sending out warning messages.
200 The configuration file is only read when the
203 If changes made to the configuration file are to take effect, the
205 needs to be restarted.
207 An example of a config file:
208 .Bd -literal -offset indent
214 If the machine running the KDC has new addresses added to it, the KDC
215 will have to be restarted to listen to them.
216 The reason it doesn't just listen to wildcarded (like INADDR_ANY)
217 addresses, is that the replies has to come from the same address they
218 were sent to, and most OS:es doesn't pass this information to the
220 If your normal mode of operation require that you add and remove
221 addresses, the best option is probably to listen to a wildcarded TCP
222 socket, and make sure your clients use TCP to connect.
223 For instance, this will listen to IPv4 TCP port 88 only:
224 .Bd -literal -offset indent
225 kdc --addresses=0.0.0.0 --ports="88/tcp"
228 There should be a way to specify protocol, port, and address triplets,
229 not just addresses and protocol, port tuples.