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<h1>KDC preauthentication interface (kdcpreauth)<a class="headerlink" href="#kdc-preauthentication-interface-kdcpreauth" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
<p>The kdcpreauth interface allows the addition of KDC support for
preauthentication mechanisms beyond those included in the core MIT
krb5 code base. For a detailed description of the kdcpreauth
interface, see the header file <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><krb5/kdcpreauth_plugin.h></span></tt> (or
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><krb5/preauth_plugin.h></span></tt> before release 1.12).</p>
<p>A kdcpreauth module is generally responsible for:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Supplying a list of preauth type numbers used by the module in the
<strong>pa_type_list</strong> field of the vtable structure.</li>
<li>Indicating what kind of preauthentication mechanism it implements,
with the <strong>flags</strong> method. If the mechanism computes a new reply
key, it must specify the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PA_REPLACES_KEY</span></tt> flag. If the mechanism
is generally only used with hardware tokens, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PA_HARDWARE</span></tt>
flag allows the mechanism to work with principals which have the
<strong>requires_hwauth</strong> flag set.</li>
<li>Producing a padata value to be sent with a preauth_required error,
with the <strong>edata</strong> method.</li>
<li>Examining a padata value sent by a client and verifying that it
proves knowledge of the appropriate client credential information.
This is done with the <strong>verify</strong> method.</li>
<li>Producing a padata response value for the client, and possibly
computing a reply key. This is done with the <strong>return_padata</strong>
method.</li>
</ul>
<p>A module can create and destroy per-KDC state objects by implementing
the <strong>init</strong> and <strong>fini</strong> methods. Per-KDC state objects have the
type krb5_kdcpreauth_moddata, which is an abstract pointer types. A
module should typically cast this to an internal type for the state
object.</p>
<p>A module can create a per-request state object by returning one in the
<strong>verify</strong> method, receiving it in the <strong>return_padata</strong> method, and
destroying it in the <strong>free_modreq</strong> method. Note that these state
objects only apply to the processing of a single AS request packet,
not to an entire authentication exchange (since an authentication
exchange may remain unfinished by the client or may involve multiple
different KDC hosts). Per-request state objects have the type
krb5_kdcpreauth_modreq, which is an abstract pointer type.</p>
<p>The <strong>edata</strong>, <strong>verify</strong>, and <strong>return_padata</strong> methods have access
to a callback function and handle (called a “rock”) which can be used
to get additional information about the current request, including the
maximum allowable clock skew, the client’s long-term keys, the
DER-encoded request body, the FAST armor key, string attributes on the
client’s database entry, and the client’s database entry itself. The
<strong>verify</strong> method can assert one or more authentication indicators to
be included in the issued ticket using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">add_auth_indicator</span></tt>
callback (new in release 1.14).</p>
<p>A module can generate state information to be included with the next
client request using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_cookie</span></tt> callback (new in release
1.14). On the next request, the module can read this state
information using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_cookie</span></tt> callback. Cookie information is
encrypted, timestamped, and transmitted to the client in a
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PA-FX-COOKIE</span></tt> pa-data item. Older clients may not support cookies
and therefore may not transmit the cookie in the next request; in this
case, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_cookie</span></tt> will not yield the saved information.</p>
<p>If a module implements a mechanism which requires multiple round
trips, its <strong>verify</strong> method can respond with the code
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">KRB5KDC_ERR_MORE_PREAUTH_DATA_REQUIRED</span></tt> and a list of pa-data in
the <em>e_data</em> parameter to be processed by the client.</p>
<p>The <strong>edata</strong> and <strong>verify</strong> methods can be implemented
asynchronously. Because of this, they do not return values directly
to the caller, but must instead invoke responder functions with their
results. A synchronous implementation can invoke the responder
function immediately. An asynchronous implementation can use the
callback to get an event context for use with the <a class="reference external" href="https://fedorahosted.org/libverto/">libverto</a> API.</p>
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