Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 129293
kerberos ticket forwarding support on openssh
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:03 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: We need kerberos ticket forwarding support on openssh, our infrastructure is being kerberized and many users have already complained about this feature missing on RHEL3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openssh-3.6.1p2-33.30.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use the RHEL WS U2 provided openssh (openssh-3.6.1p2-33.30.1) 2. 3. Actual Results: No kerberos ticket forwarding support. Additional info:
Personally, I think this bug is more than just an "enhancement" Here at MIT we're running into this issue. The SPEC file for the SRPM has this neat little line in it: # Apply gss-specific patches only if the release tag includes "gss". (Not # to be used for actual releases until it's in the mainline.) if echo "%{release}" | grep -q gss; then %patch11 -p1 -b .gssapi autoreconf fi If you add 'gss' to the release tag, or simply comment out the "if" clause, and rebuild the RPM, the patch gets applied, and ssh behaves as expected. It's most unfortunate that the GSSAPI patch has been left out of the mainline release. It's been around for quite some time, and is in widespread use in other distributions. Without this patch, OpenSSH is mostly useless in any Kerberized infrastructure. Is there any chance that this patch can make into mainline releases before RHEL 4.0? Alternatively, can you provide two packages, one with GSSAPI, and one without, until such time? Having an OpenSSH client with Kerberos support in this half-broken state is alienating a number of large educational institutions.
particularly as authconfig supports kerberos. Are there any plans to fix this, or has it fallen through the cracks since it's flagged as an enhancement?
No, there are currently no such plans and note that the patch in the SRPM is incompatible with the gssapi implementation in the current openssh-3.9p1.