Kerberos Survival Guide

Presented by:

JD Wade, SharePoint Consultant, MCITP

Mail: jd.wade@hrizns.com

Blog: http://wadingthrough.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jdwade

Twitter: http://twitter.com/JDWade

Agenda

•Overview

•Logon Process

•Accessing a Web Site

•Keep in Mind

•Delegation

•Tools

•Resources

Kerberos

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ClientServer

Trusted Third Party

Details Out of Scope

• Renewing tickets

• Ticket expiration

• Keys

• Authenticator

• TGT Structure

• Service Ticket Structure

• Encryption/Decryption

• Multiple domains/forests

Client to server or server to server

Windows = Kerberos V5

Safe on open networks

Default authentication W2K+ domains

Ticket

Dependencies

SPN

O/S

Time Service

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

http://servername

Kerberos• Benefits

• Delegated Authentication

• Interoperability (non-Microsoft)

• More Efficient Authentication

• Mutual Authentication

• Server to client

• Client to server

Logon Process

KDC

KDC

KDC

SPN

host/workstationname

KDC

Access Web Site

401

SPN

http/www.website.com

Keep In Mind

Classic Claims

• IIS – Chatty by default

• IIS6 – See MS KB 917557

• IIS7/8 – See MS KB 954873

Delegation

Delegation

Srv1

Datamart

Srv2

Cubes

Srv3 Srv4

Web

Srv1

Datamart

Srv2

Cubes

Srv3 Srv4

Web

Srv1

Datamart

Srv2

Cubes

Srv3 Srv4

Web

FBA Kerberos

Protocol Transition

Protocol Transition

Srv1

Datamart

Srv2

Cubes

Srv3 Srv4

Web

• Uses Protocol Transition (Forest/domain limited until Server 2012)

(Constrained Only)

• Excel Services

• Visio Services

• PerformancePoint

• InfoPath Form Services

• SQL SSRS 2012

• Access Service 2013

• Does NOT Use Protocol Transition (Forest limited until Server 2012)

(Unconstrained or Constrained)

• SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2

• BCS

• Project Server

• Doesn’t usually require Kerberos

• PowerPivot for SharePoint Server

• New PowerShell parameter

• PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount

• Constrained Delegation across forests and domains

• Must have at least one W2K12 DC in all domains involved

• SharePoint must be running on W2K12 servers

• Backend server must be W2K3 or later

• Must apply MS KB 2665790 to all W2K8 and W2K8 R2 DCs

• Must not have W2K3 DCs

• New KDC operational event log in W2K12

• Application and Services/Microsoft/Windows/Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center/Operational

• New Kerberos operational event log in W2K12

• Application and Services/Microsoft/Windows/Security-Kerberos/Operational

• Performance counters added

Windows 2012

• Kerberos Authentication Tester

• http://blog.michelbarneveld.nl/media/p/33.aspx

• KList

• http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11583

• Kerberos PowerShell Module

• https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Keberos-Module-3a6ab12a

• SharePoint Kerberos Buddy

• DelegConfig v2

Tools

• Kerberos Survival Guide wiki page

Named my session that title before the wiki page existed

• Kerberos for Microsoft BI wiki page

• Microsoft BI Authentication and Identity Delegation paper

• The Final Kerberos Guide for SharePoint Technicians

Resources

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6:00pm…..

Q & A

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Appendix

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 Works

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772815%28WS.10%29.aspx

• Explained: Windows Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647076.aspx

References• Kerberos Authentication Tools and Settings

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738673%28WS.10%29.aspx

• How To: Use Protocol Transition and Constrained Delegation in ASP.NET 2.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649317.aspx

• Spence Harbar’s Blog

http://www.harbar.net

• 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.

• 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.

• Request TGT (Remember there is even more complexity)

1. User (client) logs into workstation entering their password.

2. 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.

3. Client sends these three items to the KDC.

4. KDC get user’s password from AD, decrypts time and verifies it is valid.

5. 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)

6. KDC sends both to the client.

7. 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)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. TGS sends service session key and the service ticket to the client.

• Access Service (Remember there is even more complexity)

5. 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.

6. Client sends ticket and authenticator to remote server which runs service.

7. 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

8. (Optional) If client requests mutual authentication, service encrypts current time using the

service session key creating an authenticator and sends to the client.

9. Clients decrypts authenticator and validates time.

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