Kerberos Survival Guide SPS Chicago

Kerberos Survival Guide
Presented by:
JD Wade, SharePoint Consultant, MCITP
Mail: jd.wade@hrizns.com
Blog: http://wadingthrough.com
LinkedIn: JD Wade
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JDWade

Who is JD Wade?
SharePoint Consultant since 2007
Certified KnowledgeLake Partner
With Horizons since 2005
Member of SharePoint 2007 and 2010 TAP
Over 10 years of IT experience
Technical Editor forSharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery http://tinyurl.com/SPDRBook2010
Loves anything related to sound
Known Alias: “The KB Man” thekbman@hrizns.com

Agenda
Overview
Logon Process
Accessing a Web Site
Troubleshooting Kerberos Demos
Delegation and Demos

Kerberos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dependencies
SPN

Service Principal Name
Service Class
Host Name
Port
HTTP/website:80

Service Classes allowed by host
alerter
http
policyagent
scm
appmgmt
ias
protectedstorage
seclogon
browser
iisad
rasman
snmp
cifs
min
remoteaccess
spooler
cisvc
messenger
replicator
Tapisrv

clipsrv
msiserver
rpc
time
dcom
mcsvc
rpclocator
trksvr
dhcp
netdde
rpcss
trkwks
dmserver
netddedsm
rsvp
ups
dns
netlogon
samss
w3svc
dnscache
netman
scardsvr
wins
eventlog
nmagent
scesrv
www
eventsystem
oakley
Schedule
fax
plugplay

Kerberos
Benefits
Delegated Authentication
Interoperability
More Efficient Authentication
Mutual Authentication
IIS – Chatty by default
IIS6 – See MS KB 917557
IIS7 – See MS KB 958473

Logon Process

KDC
SPN

Access Web Site

TroubleshootingKerberos Demos

Delegation

FBA
Kerberos

References
Ken Schaefer’s Multi-Part Kerberos Blog Posts:http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2006/10/20/512.aspx
What Is Kerberos Authentication?http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc780469%28WS.10%29.aspx
How the Kerberos Version 5 Authentication Protocol Workshttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772815%28WS.10%29.aspx
Explained: Windows Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647076.aspx

References
Kerberos Authentication Tools and Settingshttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738673%28WS.10%29.aspx
How To: Use Protocol Transition and Constrained Delegation in ASP.NET 2.0http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649317.aspx
Spence Harbar’s Bloghttp://www.harbar.net

Appendix

Kerberos is an open authentication protocol. Kerberos v5 was invented in 1993 at MIT.
Authentication is the process of proving your identity to a remote system.
Your identity is who you are, and authentication is the process of proving that. In many systems your identity is your username, and you use a secret shared between you and the remote system (a password) to prove that your identity.
User password is encrypted as the user key. User key is stored in credentials cache. Once the logon session key is received, the user key is discarded.
Service password is encrypted as the service key.
KDCs are found through a DNS query. Service registered in DNS by DCs.

Showing detail behind what is happening inside of KDC but for day-to-day, use can just remember KDC
Another reason for simplification: encryption upon encryption upon encryption…just remember it is encrypted
This is a Windows-centric Kerberos presentation
Load balanced solutions need service account
All web applications hosted using the same SPN have to be hosted with the same account
Use A records, not CNAME records

Terms
Key Distribution Center (KDC) – In Windows AD, KDC lives on domain controllers (DC), KDCs share a long term key across all DCs.
KDC security account database – In Windows, it is Active Directory
Authorization Service (AS) – part of the KDC
Ticket Granting Service (TGS) – part of the KDC
Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) - A user's initial ticket from the authentication service, used to request service tickets, and meant only for use by the ticket granting service. Keeps the user from having to enter password each time a ticket is requested.

Tickets
Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT)
A user's initial ticket from the authentication service
Used to request service tickets
Meant only for use by the ticket-granting service.
Service ticket for the KDC (service class = krbtgt)
Service Ticket
Enables the ticket-granting service (TGS) to safely transport the requester's credentials to the target server or service.

Tools
Knowledge
SetSPN
Windows Security Logs
Windows 2008 ADUC or ADSIEdit
Kerbtray or Klist
Netmon and Fiddler
IIS Logs and IIS7 Failed Request Tracing
LDP
Kerberos Logging
Event Logging and/or Debug Logs

Troubleshooting
Have user logon and logoff if they don’t regularly: TGTs are only renewable for so long and then they expire (7 day default), then password has to be re-entered.
Remember that authenticators contain the current time. Check for time sync issues.

Common Issues
Missing SPN
Duplicate SPN
SPN assigned to wrong service account
Times are out of sync
Client TGT expired (7 days)
IE and non-default ports
Kerberos very chatty (see MS KB

Request TGT (Remember there is even more complexity)
User (client) logs into workstation entering their password.
Client builds an authentication service request containing the user’s username (KPN), the SPN of the TGS, and encrypts the current time using the user’s password as an authenticator.
Client sends these three items to the KDC.
KDC get user’s password from AD, decrypts time and verifies it is valid.
AS generates a logon session key and encrypts with the user’s password. AS generates a service ticket which contains a logon session key and the user’s KPN encrypted with the AS shared key. This is a special service ticket called a Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT).

Request TGT (Remember there is even more complexity)
KDC sends both to the client.
Client decrypts logon session key using its password and stores the logon session key in cache. The client stores the TGT in cache.

Access Service (Remember there is even more complexity)
User (client) encrypts the current time using the logon session key in cache creating an authenticator and sends the authenticator, the user’s KPN, the name of the target service (SPN), and the TGT to the TGS.
TGS decrypts the TGT using its shared key to access the logon session key. The logon session key is used to decrypt the authenticator and confirms the time is valid.
TGS extracts the user’s KPN from the TGT. TGS generates a service session key and encrypts the service session key using the logon session key. TGS uses server session key to generate service ticket and encrypts it using service’s password.
TGS sends service session key and the service ticket to the client.

Access Service (Remember there is even more complexity)
Client decrypts service session key using cached logon session key, adds current time (as well as other items), and encrypts with the service session key to create an authenticator.
Client sends ticket and authenticator to remote server which runs service.
Service decrypts service ticket accessing the server session key and the KPN. Using the service session key, the service decrypts the authenticator and confirms the current time is valid. A Windows access token is generated
(Optional) If client requests mutual authentication, service encrypts current time using the service session key creating an authenticator and sends to the client.
Clients decrypts authenticator and validates time.

Troubleshooting Tools
Patience – Test methodically and
Knowledge - Know your Forests, Domains, Trusts, Functional Levels…get a basic lay of the land.
Always test from a different machine than the web server or domain controller!
SetSPN
Windows Security Logs
Windows 2008 ADUC
Kerbtray
Netmon and Fiddler
IIS Logs and IIS7 Failed Request Tracing
Kerberos Logging
Event Logging and/or Debug Logs

Common Issues that break Kerberos
Times are out of sync – authenticators contain current time
Missing SPN
Duplicate SPN
SPN assigned to wrong service account
IIS Providers are incorrect (For IIS 5 or 6, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/215383)
IIS 7 – remember Kernel mode authentication and check settings
Client TGT expired (7 days expiration – have user logon and logoff, no reboot required)
IE and non-default ports
Re-authentication makes it slow: see either MS KB 917557 (IIS6) or 958473 (IIS7)

Kerberos Survival Guide SPS Chicago

by JD Wade on Dec 11, 2010

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