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7 GSS-API Domain-Based Service Names and Name Type
8 draft-williams-gssapi-domain-based-names-00.txt
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52 This document describes domainname-based service principal names and
53 the corresponding name type for the GSS-API.
56 Domain-based service names are similar to host-based service names,
57 but using a domain name (not necessarily and Internat domain name)
58 instead of or in addition to a hostname. The primary purpose of
59 domain-based service names is to provide a way to name clustered
60 services after the domain which they service, thereby allowing their
61 clients to authorize the service's servers based on authentication of
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75 1. Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
76 2. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
77 3. Name Type OID and Symbolic Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
78 4. Query and Display Syntaxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
79 5. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
80 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
81 7. Normative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
82 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
83 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . 9
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130 1. Conventions used in this document
133 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
134 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
135 document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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191 The use of hostbased principal names for domain-wide services
192 presents the problem of how to distinguish between an instance of a
193 hostbased service that is authorized to respond for a domain and one
197 Consider LDAP. LDAP with SASL and the Kerberos V GSS-API mechanism
198 uses a hostbased principal with a service name of "ldap", a
199 reasonable approach, provided there is only one logical LDAP
200 directory in a Kerberos realm's domain, and that all ldap servers in
201 that realm serve that one LDAP directory. If there were other LDAP
202 directories, then clients could not tell which service is authorized
203 to serve which directory, not without assuming a secure method for
204 finding LDAP servers (e.g., DNSSEC). This is a significant, and
205 oft-unstated restriction on users of LDAP.
208 Domain based names can eliminate this problem by allowing LDAP
209 service names to indicate which LDAP directory they are authorized to
213 A domain-based name consists of three required elements:
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249 3. Name Type OID and Symbolic Name
252 The new name type has an OID of
253 [NOTE: OID assignment to be made with IANA.]
256 {iso(1) org(3) dod(6) internet(1) security(5) nametypes(6)
260 The recommended symbolic name for this GSS-API name type is
261 "GSS_C_NT_DOMAINBASED_SERVICE".
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309 4. Query and Display Syntaxes
312 There is a single syntax that applies to both query and display forms
313 of domain-based names. (We ignore string profile matters here as the
314 GSS-API's, and its mechanisms' use of character strings are out of
315 scope for this document.)
320 | <service> '@' <domain> '@' <hostname>
321 | <service> '@@' <hostname>
324 The domain name element is only optional in the query syntax of
328 A missing domain name is always to be added by the GSS-API mechanisms
329 during name canonicalization, using whatever default values are
330 appropriate for the mechanisms.
333 Therefore the display form of domain-based MNs (see [RFC2743]) MUST
334 include all three elements of domain-based names.
337 Note that for Internet domain names the trailing '.' is not and MUST
338 NOT be included in the domain name (or hostname) parts of the display
339 form GSS-API domain-based MNs.
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375 o ldap@@ds1.example.tld
376 o ldap@example.tld@ds1.example.tld
379 o kadmin@@kdc1.example.tld
380 o kadmin@example.tld@kdc1.example.tld
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431 6. Security Considerations
434 Use of GSS-API domain-based names may not be negotiable by some
435 GSS-API mechanisms, and some acceptors may not support GSS-API
436 domain-based names. In such cases initiators are left to fallback on
437 the use of hostbased names, in which case the initiators MUST also
438 verify that the acceptor's hostbased name is authorized to provide
439 the given service for the domain that the initiator had wanted.
442 The above security consideration also applies to all GSS-API
443 initiators who lack support for domain-based service names.
449 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
450 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
453 [RFC2743] Linn, J., "Generic Security Service Application Program
454 Interface Version 2, Update 1", RFC 2743, January 2000.
457 [RFC2744] Wray, J., "Generic Security Service API Version 2 :
458 C-bindings", RFC 2744, January 2000.
472 EMail: Nicolas.Williams@sun.com
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