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README

1                            kstart release 4.2
2           (kinit daemon with keytab, renewal, and AFS support)
3
4         Originally written by Robert Morgan and Booker C. Bense
5          Currently maintained by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
6
7  Copyright 2015 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>.  Copyright 1995, 1996,
8  1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
9  2011, 2012, 2014 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior
10  University.  This software is distributed under a BSD-style license.
11  Please see the section LICENSE below for more information.
12
13BLURB
14
15  k5start and krenew are modified versions of kinit which add support for
16  running as a daemon to maintain a ticket cache, running a command with
17  credentials from a keytab and maintaining a ticket cache until that
18  command completes, obtaining AFS tokens (via an external aklog) after
19  obtaining tickets, and creating an AFS PAG for a command.  They are
20  primarily useful in conjunction with long-running jobs; for moving
21  ticket handling code out of servers, cron jobs, or daemons; and to
22  obtain tickets and AFS tokens with a single command.
23
24DESCRIPTION
25
26  k5start is a modified version of kinit.  It can be used as a substitute
27  for kinit (with some additional helpful options), but it can also obtain
28  credentials automatically from a keytab.  It can run as a daemon, waking
29  up periodically to refresh credentials using that keytab, and can also
30  check for the validity of tickets and only refresh if they're no longer
31  valid.
32
33  Some of these capabilities have been included in Kerberos's kinit, but
34  the ability to maintain tickets while running as a daemon has not and is
35  useful for servers that need to use Kerberos.  Using kstart allows the
36  ticket handling to be moved out of the server into a separate process
37  dedicated just to that purpose.
38
39  k5start can optionally run an external program whenever the ticket is
40  refreshed to obtain an AFS token, and therefore can be used in
41  conjunction with a program like aklog or afslog to maintain an AFS
42  token.  When built with support for AFS PAGs, it can also put the
43  program in its own PAG so that its authentication doesn't affect any
44  other programs.
45
46  krenew is identical to k5start except that rather than obtaining new
47  tickets from a password or keytab, it renews an existing renewable
48  ticket cache.  It can be used to periodically renew tickets and
49  optionally AFS tokens for long-running processes in cases where using a
50  keytab is inappropriate (such as users running their own jobs with their
51  own credentials).
52
53REQUIREMENTS
54
55  As Kerberos programs, k5start and krenew require Kerberos libraries to
56  link against.  They have only been thoroughly tested with the MIT
57  Kerberos and Heimdal libraries on Debian, but should work with the
58  included Kerberos libraries on many other platforms.
59
60  Other than that, all you should need is a suitable C compiler.  Neither
61  program has been tested on non-Unix systems.
62
63  If you want the -t option to work, you need a program to obtain AFS
64  tokens from Kerberos tickets.  You can specify the program to use on
65  your system with the --with-aklog option to configure; if that option is
66  not given, the first of aklog or afslog that is found on your path at
67  configure time will be used.
68
69  For AFS PAG support, one of Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris 11, the kafs
70  library that comes with either Heimdal or KTH Kerberos, the kopenafs
71  library that comes with newer OpenAFS, AFS header files (on any other
72  platform besides AIX or IRIX), or AFS libraries (on AIX and IRIX) is
73  required.  AIX binaries with AFS PAG support may not run on AIX systems
74  that do not have an AFS client installed due to how AIX handles system
75  calls.
76
77  To run the test suite, you must have the Perl 5.006 or later and the
78  modules Test::More and Test::Pod installed.  Test::More comes with Perl
79  5.8 or later and Test::Pod is available from CPAN.  You will also need
80  the kinit and klist commands to be from MIT Kerberos, not Heimdal.
81
82  To check spelling in the POD documentation, Pod::Spell (available from
83  CPAN) and either aspell or ispell with the american dictionary are also
84  required.  The user's path is searched for aspell or ispell and aspell
85  is preferred.  Spelling tests are disabled by default since spelling
86  dictionaries differ too much between systems.
87
88  To enable tests that may be sensitive to the local environment or that
89  produce a lot of false positives without uncovering many problems,
90  including the spelling tests, set RRA_MAINTAINER_TESTS to a true value.
91
92  To bootstrap from a Git checkout, or if you change the Automake files
93  and need to regenerate Makefile.in, you will need Automake 1.11 or
94  later.  For bootstrap or if you change configure.ac or any of the m4
95  files it includes and need to regenerate configure or config.h.in, you
96  will need Autoconf 2.64 or later.  Perl is also required to generate
97  the manual pages from a fresh Git checkout.
98
99INSTALLATION
100
101  Basic installation is simple.  Just run:
102
103      ./configure
104      make
105      make install
106
107  Pass --enable-silent-rules to configure for a quieter build (similar to
108  the Linux kernel).  Use make warnings instead of make to build with full
109  GCC compiler warnings (requires a relatively current version of GCC).
110
111  This will build k5start and krenew and install them in /usr/local/bin
112  with man pages in /usr/local/man/man1.  You may need to be root to run
113  make install.  To install in a different location, specify a different
114  location with the --prefix option to configure, as in:
115
116      ./configure --prefix=/opt/sw
117
118  Binaries would then be installed in /opt/sw/bin and man pages in
119  /opt/sw/man/man1.  Alternately, --bindir and --mandir can be given to
120  change the installation locations of the binaries and manual pages
121  separately.
122
123  Normally, configure will use krb5-config to determine the flags to use
124  to compile with your Kerberos libraries.  If krb5-config isn't found, it
125  will look for the standard Kerberos libraries in locations already
126  searched by your compiler.  If the the krb5-config script first in your
127  path is not the one corresponding to the Kerberos libraries you want to
128  use or if your Kerberos libraries and includes aren't in a location
129  searched by default by your compiler, you need to specify
130  --with-krb5=PATH:
131
132      ./configure --with-krb5=/usr/pubsw
133
134  You can also individually set the paths to the include directory and the
135  library directory with --with-krb5-include and --with-krb5-lib.  You may
136  need to do this if Autoconf can't figure out whether to use lib, lib32,
137  or lib64 on your platform.
138
139  To specify a particular krb5-config script to use, either set the
140  PATH_KRB5_CONFIG environment variable or pass it to configure like:
141
142      ./configure PATH_KRB5_CONFIG=/path/to/krb5-config
143
144  To not use krb5-config and force library probing even if there is a
145  krb5-config script on your path, set PATH_KRB5_CONFIG to a nonexistent
146  path:
147
148      ./configure PATH_KRB5_CONFIG=/nonexistent
149
150  If you are using aklog, afslog, or some other program to obtain AFS
151  tokens, give its path to configure with the --with-aklog option, as in:
152
153      ./configure --with-aklog=/usr/local/bin/aklog
154
155  This program will be run when the -t option is given to k5start or
156  krenew.
157
158  To enable support for AFS PAGs, pass the --enable-setpag flag to
159  configure.  It is not enabled by default.  On platforms other than Linux
160  and without the kafs library, you will need to add the --with-afs flag
161  specifying the location of your AFS includes and libraries unless
162  they're on your standard search path.  For example:
163
164      ./configure --enable-setpag --with-afs=/usr/afsws
165
166  When enabled, k5start and krenew will always create a new PAG before
167  authentication when running a specific command and when aklog is being
168  run.
169
170  You can build kstart in a different directory from the source if you
171  wish.  To do this, create a new empty directory, cd to that directory,
172  and then give the path to configure when running configure.  Everything
173  else should work as above.
174
175  You can pass the --enable-reduced-depends flag to configure to try to
176  minimize the shared library dependencies encoded in the binaries.  This
177  omits from the link line all the libraries included solely because the
178  Kerberos libraries depend on them and instead links the programs only
179  against libraries whose APIs are called directly.  This will only work
180  with shared Kerberos libraries and will only work on platforms where
181  shared libraries properly encode their own dependencies (such as Linux).
182  It is intended primarily for building packages for Linux distributions
183  to avoid encoding unnecessary shared library dependencies that make
184  shared library migrations more difficult.  If none of the above made any
185  sense to you, don't bother with this flag.
186
187TESTING
188
189  kstart comes with the beginnings of a test suite, which you can run
190  with:
191
192      make check
193
194  In order to test the client in a meaningful way, you will need to do
195  some preparatory work before running the test suite.  Review the file:
196
197      tests/data/README
198
199  and follow the instructions in that file to enable the full test suite.
200
201  The test suite also requires some additional software be installed that
202  isn't otherwise used by kstart.  See REQUIREMENTS above for the full
203  list of requirements for the test suite.  The test driver attempts to
204  selectively skip those tests for which the necessary configuration is
205  not available, but this has not yet been fully tested in all of its
206  possible permutations (and the test suite cannot cope with a missing
207  Test::More module).
208
209  If a test fails, you can run a single test with verbose output via:
210
211      tests/runtests -o <name-of-test>
212
213  Do this instead of running the test program directly since it will
214  ensure that necessary environment variables are set up.
215
216HOMEPAGE AND SOURCE REPOSITORY
217
218  The kstart web page at:
219
220      http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/
221
222  will always have the current version of this package, the current
223  documentation, and pointers to any additional resources.
224
225  kstart is maintained using Git.  You can access the current source by
226  cloning the repository at:
227
228      git://git.eyrie.org/kerberos/kstart.git
229
230  or view the repository via the web at:
231
232      http://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/kstart.git
233
234THANKS
235
236  To Navid Golpayegani, for contributing the initial implementation of the
237  -b option to background after the initial authentication and the -p
238  option to save the PID in a file.
239
240  To Buck Huppmann, for contributing an RPM spec file and suggesting
241  krenew.
242
243  To Adam Megacz, for pointing out that checking the executability of the
244  aklog program isn't necessary and for contributing the code to propagate
245  signals to a child process.
246
247  To Quanah Gibson-Mount, for pointing out various build system issues and
248  missing documentation.
249
250  To Sidney Cammeresi, for catching a missing include in krenew and for
251  providing information and suggestions about Mac OS X's default ticket
252  cache and its effects on the -b option of k5start and krenew.
253
254  To Thomas Kula, for pointing out that k_hasafs has to be called before
255  k_setpag when using the kafs functions.
256
257  To Thomas Weiss, for noticing that code restructuring caused the
258  argument to -H to be ignored in k5start and that -H and -K should be
259  diagnosed as mutually exclusive.
260
261  To Howard Wilkinson, for the initial version of the -o, -g, and -m
262  support and further debugging of it.
263
264  To Sascha Tandel, for the initial version of -c support and reports of
265  build problems when the AFS libauthent and libafsrpc libraries didn't
266  work.
267
268  To Gautam Iyer, for the initial version of -H support in krenew.
269
270  To Mike Horansky, for the idea of copying the current ticket cache when
271  running krenew with a command, thereby saving the ticket cache from
272  destruction when the user logs out.
273
274LICENSE
275
276  The kstart package as a whole covered by the following copyright
277  statement and license:
278
279    Copyright 2015 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
280    Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006,
281        2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 The Board of Trustees of
282        the Leland Stanford Junior University
283
284    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
285    a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
286    "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
287    without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
288    distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
289    permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
290    the following conditions:
291
292    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
293    included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
294
295    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
296    EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
297    MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
298    IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
299    CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
300    TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
301    SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
302
303  All individual files without an explicit exception below are released
304  under this license.  Some files may have additional copyright holders as
305  noted in those files.  There is detailed information about the licensing
306  of each file in the LICENSE file in this distribution.
307
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312