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Bug 2091023

Summary: gssapi auth failures blocking other authentication methods fallback
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Dmitry Belyavskiy <dbelyavs>
Component: opensshAssignee: Zoltan Fridrich <zfridric>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Marek Havrila <mhavrila>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 9.0CC: jjelen, mhavrila, omoris, zfridric
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
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Fixed In Version: openssh-8.7p1-12.el9 Doc Type: No Doc Update
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Last Closed: 2022-11-15 11:21:51 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Dmitry Belyavskiy 2022-05-27 11:01:35 UTC
Attempting a connection with kerberos authentication enabled in the server using the following authentication order,

ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex $USER@$HOST -o GSSAPIKeyExchange=yes -o GSSAPIAuthentication=yes,

works as expected.

However, if there is no ticket for $USER in the client, the server throws an error:

monitor_read: unpermitted request 48

And the client gets the connection closed, instead of receiving an authorization error.

As a consequence, setting additional authentication fallbacks, such as PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,password results in the methods listed after gssapi-keyex not being tried at all.

See more details in https://github.com/openssh-gsskex/openssh-gsskex/issues/20

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 11:21:51 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (openssh bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:8375