Account administration in a distributed UNIX/Linux environment can become complicated and messy if done by hand. Large sites use special tools to deal with this problem. In this article, I describe ...

I've inherited a managed Linux desktop environment from a previous administrator. There are about 50 Ubuntu machines that use Kerberos and NIS for AuthN/AuthZ. There are two KDC servers that maintain ...

Two implementations of the Kerberos authentication protocol received patches this week against a vulnerability that allowed a threat actor to bypass authentication procedures. The vulnerability was ...

A bypass bug present in the Kerberos cryptographic authentication protocol for 21 years has now been fixed in patches from Microsoft, Samba, Fedora, FreeBSD, and Debian. The discoverers of the ancient ...

A buffer overflow in the MIT Kerberos 5 network authentication tool’s “krb5_aname_to_localname()” library function could be exploited to gain root privileges on the affected machine. For more, go to: ...

This guide will show you how to use openSUSE with BU’s Kerberos system. After following this guide you should be able to log in with your BU user name and password (the one you use to log in to the ...

Topic ===== multiple vulnerabilities in kerberos software can result in remote compomises and DoS attacks. Problem Description ===== Kerberos is a network authentication system. The MIT Kerberos team ...

Basic NFS seems ridiculously insecure, while NFSv4 with Kerberos looks to be a real pain to set up. My Linux systems are already domain-joined to AD via sssd/adcli and I have working keytab, ssh/sudo ...