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Message-ID: <200403250107.i2P17tgd028110@caligula.anu.edu.au>
From: avalon at caligula.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Subject: Decrypting a kerberos master database
In some mail from Richard Massa, sie said:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for information on decrypting a kerberos database. Basically, I
> want to follow the steps a hacker would use to obtain passwords in the event
> of a root compromise of a master KDC. Googling doesn't seem to turn up
> much, but maybe I'm not entering in the right keywords...
Find out where the encryption is kept so that it can boot unattended.
For MIT Kerberos, this is the stash file (/.k5.* is normal.)
A properly secured KDC (master or slave) does nothing else aside
from handle KDC requests, including no remote ssh.
Darren
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