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@node Things in search for a better place, Windows compatibility, Applications, Top
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@chapter Things in search for a better place
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@section Making things work on Ciscos
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Modern versions of Cisco IOS has some support for authenticating via
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Kerberos 5. This can be used both by having the router get a ticket when
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you login (boring), and by using Kerberos authenticated telnet to access
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your router (less boring). The following has been tested on IOS
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11.2(12), things might be different with other versions. Old versions
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are known to have bugs.
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To make this work, you will first have to configure your router to use
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Kerberos (this is explained in the documentation). A sample
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configuration looks like the following:
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@example
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aaa new-model
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aaa authentication login default krb5-telnet krb5 enable
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aaa authorization exec krb5-instance
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kerberos local-realm FOO.SE
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kerberos srvtab entry host/router.foo.se 0 891725446 4 1 8 012345678901234567
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kerberos server FOO.SE 10.0.0.1
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kerberos instance map admin 15
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@end example
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This tells you (among other things) that when logging in, the router
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should try to authenticate with kerberised telnet, and if that fails try
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to verify a plain text password via a Kerberos ticket exchange (as
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opposed to a local database, RADIUS or something similar), and if that
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fails try the local enable password. If you're not careful when you
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specify the `login default' authentication mechanism, you might not be
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able to login at all. The `instance map' and `authorization exec' lines
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says that people with `admin' instances should be given `enabled' shells
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when logging in.
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The numbers after the principal on the `srvtab' line are principal type,
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time stamp (in seconds since 1970), key version number (4), keytype (1 ==
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des), key length (always 8 with des), and then the key.
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To make the Heimdal KDC produce tickets that the Cisco can decode you
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might have to turn on the @samp{encode_as_rep_as_tgs_rep} flag in the
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KDC. You will also have to specify that the router can't handle anything
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but @samp{des-cbc-crc}. This can be done with the @samp{del_enctype}
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command of @samp{kadmin}.
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This all fine and so, but unless you have an IOS version with encryption
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(available only in the U.S) it doesn't really solve any problems. Sure
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you don't have to send your password over the wire, but since the telnet
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connection isn't protected it's still possible for someone to steal your
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session. This won't be fixed until someone adds integrity to the telnet
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protocol.
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A working solution would be to hook up a machine with a real operating
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system to the console of the Cisco and then use it as a backwards
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terminal server.
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