8.8. Enabling GSSAPI authentication and enforcing Kerberos authentication indicators for sudo on an IdM client


You can enable Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSSAPI) authentication on an Identity Management (IdM) client for PAM-enabled services such as sudo and sudo -i via the pam_sss_gss.so PAM module. Additionally, you can enable only users who have logged in with a smart card to authenticate to those services with their Kerberos ticket.

注意

You can use this procedure as a template to configure GSSAPI authentication with SSSD for other PAM-aware services, and further restrict access to only those users that have a specific authentication indicator attached to their Kerberos ticket.

However, using authentication indicators to restrict access has currently two limitations:

  • Only deployments based on MIT Kerberos support authentication indicators. These deployments include, for example, RHEL IdM, FreeIPA in Fedora, and Samba AD DC in Fedora.
  • Authentication indicators are removed from Kerberos tickets at the realm boundary.

Therefore, if you, for example, want to restrict sudo access by using pam_gssapi_indicators_map = sudo:pkinit, you can only apply this restriction to users stored in IdM LDAP. Tickets issued to users stored elsewhere, such as those stored in Active Directory, currently cannot satisfy the pam_gssapi_indicators_map = sudo:pkinit condition.

Prerequisites

  • You have created a sudo rule for an IdM user that applies to an IdM host. For this example, you have created the idm_user_reboot sudo rule to grant the idm_user account the permission to run the /usr/sbin/reboot command on the idmclient host.
  • You have configured smart card authentication for the idmclient host.
  • You need root privileges to modify the /etc/sssd/sssd.conf file and PAM files in the /etc/pam.d/ directory.

Procedure

  1. Open the /etc/sssd/sssd.conf configuration file.
  2. Add the following entries to the [domain/<domain_name>] section.

    [domain/<domain_name>]
    pam_gssapi_services = sudo, sudo-i
    pam_gssapi_indicators_map = sudo:pkinit, sudo-i:pkinit
  3. Save and close the /etc/sssd/sssd.conf file.
  4. Restart the SSSD service to load the configuration changes.

    [root@idmclient ~]# systemctl restart sssd
  5. Determine if you have selected the sssd authselect profile:

    # authselect current
    Profile ID: sssd
  6. Optional: Select the sssd authselect profile:

    # authselect select sssd
  7. Enable GSSAPI authentication:

    # authselect enable-feature with-gssapi
  8. Configure the system to authenticate only users with smart cards:

    # authselect with-smartcard-required

Verification

  1. Log into the host as the idm_user account and authenticate with a smart card.

    [root@idmclient ~]# ssh -l idm_user@idm.example.com localhost
    PIN for smart_card
  2. Verify that you have a ticket-granting ticket as the smart card user.

    [idm_user@idmclient ~]$ klist
    Ticket cache: KEYRING:persistent:1358900015:krb_cache_TObtNMd
    Default principal: idm_user@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM
    
    Valid starting       Expires              Service principal
    02/15/2021 16:29:48  02/16/2021 02:29:48  krbtgt/IDM.EXAMPLE.COM@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM
    	renew until 02/22/2021 16:29:44
  3. Display which sudo rules the idm_user account is allowed to perform.

    [idm_user@idmclient ~]$ sudo -l
    Matching Defaults entries for idmuser on idmclient:
        !visiblepw, always_set_home, match_group_by_gid, always_query_group_plugin,
        env_reset, env_keep="COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE KDEDIR LS_COLORS",
        env_keep+="MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE",
        env_keep+="LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES",
        env_keep+="LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE",
        env_keep+="LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY KRB5CCNAME",
        secure_path=/sbin\:/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin
    
    User idm_user may run the following commands on idmclient:
        (root) /usr/sbin/reboot
  4. Reboot the machine using sudo, without specifying a password.

    [idm_user@idmclient ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/reboot
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