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Without this patch, a Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mount must provide a Kerberos credential for the client at mount time. This credential is typically referred to as a "machine credential". It can be created one of two ways: - The user (usually root) has a valid TGT at the time the mount is done and this becomes the machine credential. There are two problems with this. 1 - The user doing the mount must have a valid TGT for a user principal at mount time. As such, the mount cannot be put in fstab(5) or similar. 2 - When the TGT expires, the mount breaks. - The client machine has a service principal in its default keytab file and this service principal (typically called a host-based initiator credential) is used as the machine credential. There are problems with this approach as well: 1 - There is a certain amount of administrative overhead creating the service principal for the NFS client, creating a keytab entry for this principal and then copying the keytab entry into the client's default keytab file via some secure means. 2 - The NFS client must have a fixed, well known, DNS name, since that FQDN is in the service principal name as the instance. This patch uses a feature of NFSv4.1/4.2 called SP4_NONE, which allows the state maintenance operations to be performed by any authentication mechanism, to do these operations via AUTH_SYS instead of RPCSEC_GSS (Kerberos). As such, neither of the above mechanisms is needed. It is hoped that this option will encourage adoption of Kerberized NFS mounts using TLS, to provide a more secure NFS mount. This new NFSv4.1/4.2 mount option, called "syskrb5" must be used with "sec=krb5[ip]" to avoid the need for either of the above Kerberos setups to be done by the client. Note that all file access/modification operations still require users on the NFS client to have a valid TGT recognized by the NFSv4.1/4.2 server. As such, this option allows, at most, a malicious client to do some sort of DOS attack. Although not required, use of "tls" with this new option is encouraged, since it provides on-the-wire encryption plus, optionally, client identity verification via a X.509 certificate provided to the server during TLS handshake. Alternately, "sec=krb5p" does provide on-the-wire encryption of file data. A mount_nfs(8) man page update will be done in a separate commit. Discussed on: freebsd-current@ MFC after: 3 months |
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