GSSAPI client on Windows
Jeffrey Altman
jaltman at MIT.EDU
Tue Aug 2 13:10:43 EDT 2005
If you are using KFW 2.6.5 then you have the test applications
gss.exe or gss-client.exe
are sample client applications.
gss-server.exe
is a sample server.
I would suggest you perform your tests with these applications that
are known to work before you test your own code.
The source code for these applications are in
src/gss-sample/
The README file for this code is as follows:
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This directory contains a sample GSS-API client and server
application. In addition to serving as an example of GSS-API
programming, this application is also intended to be a tool for
testing the performance of GSS-API implementations.
Each time the client is invoked, it performs one or more exchanges
with the server. Each exchange with the server consists primarily of
the following steps:
1. A TCP/IP connection is established.
2. (optional, on by default) The client and server establish a
GSS-API context, and the server prints the identify of the
client.
/ 3. The client sends a message to the server. The message may
/ be plaintext, cryptographically "signed" but not encrypted,
| or encrypted (default).
|
0 or | 4. The server decrypts the message (if necessary), verifies
more | its signature (if there is one) and prints it.
times|
| 5. The server sends either a signature block (the default) or an
| empty token back to the client to acknowledge the message.
\
\ 6. If the server sent a signature block, the client verifies
it and prints a message indicating that it was verified.
7. The client sends an empty block to the server to tell it
that the exchange is finished.
8. The client and server close the TCP/IP connection and
destroy the GSS-API context.
The client also supports the -v1 flag which uses an older exchange
format compatible with previous releases of Kerberos and with samples
shipped in the Microsoft SDK.
The server's command line usage is
gss-server [-port port] [-verbose] [-once] [-inetd] [-export]
[-logfile file] service_name
where service_name is a GSS-API service name of the form
"service at host" (or just "service", in which case the local host name
is used). The command-line options have the following meanings:
-port The TCP port on which to accept connections. Default is 4444.
-once Tells the server to exit after a single exchange, rather than
persisting.
-inetd Tells the server that it is running out of inetd, so it should
interact with the client on stdin rather than binding to a
network port. Implies "-once".
-export Tells the server to test the gss_export_sec_context function
after establishing a context with a client.
-logfile
The file to which the server should append its output, rather
than sending it to stdout.
The client's command line usage is
gss-client [-port port] [-mech mechanism] [-d] [-f] [-q]
[-seq] [-noreplay] [-nomutual]
[-ccount count] [-mcount count] [-na] [-nw] [-nx] [-nm]
host service_name msg
where host is the host running the server, service_name is the service
name that the server will establish connections as (if you don't
specify the host name in the service name when running gss-server, and
it's running on a different machine from gss-client, make sure to
specify the server's host name in the service name you specify to
gss-client!) and msg is the message. The command-line options have
the following meanings:
-port The TCP port to which to connect. Default is 4444.
-mech The OID of the GSS-API mechanism to use.
-d Tells the client to delegate credentials to the server. For
the Kerberos GSS-API mechanism, this means that a forwardable
TGT will be sent to the server, which will put it in its
credential cache (you must have acquired your tickets with
"kinit -f" for this to work).
-seq Tells the client to enforce ordered message delivery via
sequencing.
-noreplay Tells the client to disable the use of replay
detection.
-nomutual Tells the client to disable the use of mutual authentication.
-f Tells the client that the "msg" argument is actually the name
of a file whose contents should be used as the message.
-q Tells the client to be quiet, i.e., to only print error
messages.
-ccount Specifies how many sessions the client should initiate with
the server (the "connection count").
-mcount Specifies how many times the message should be sent to the
server in each session (the "message count").
-na Tells the client not to do any authentication with the
server. Implies "-nw", "-nx" and "-nm".
-nw Tells the client not to "wrap" messages. Implies "-nx".
-nx Tells the client not to encrypt messages.
-nm Tells the client not to ask the server to send back a
cryptographic checksum ("MIC").
To run the server on a host, you need to make sure that the principal
corresponding to service_name is in the default keytab on the server
host, and that the gss-server process can read the keytab. For
example, the service name "host at server" corresponds to the Kerberos
principal "host/server.domain.com at REALM".
This sample application uses the following GSS-API functions:
gss_accept_sec_context gss_inquire_names_for_mech
gss_acquire_cred gss_oid_to_str
gss_delete_sec_context gss_release_buffer
gss_display_name gss_release_cred
gss_display_status gss_release_name
gss_export_sec_context gss_release_oid
gss_get_mic gss_release_oid_set
gss_import_name gss_str_to_oid
gss_import_sec_context gss_unwrap
gss_init_sec_context gss_verify_mic
gss_inquire_context gss_wrap
This application was originally written by Barry Jaspan of OpenVision
Technologies, Inc. It was updated significantly by Jonathan Kamens of
OpenVision Technologies, Inc.
$Id: README,v 1.8 2004/02/07 19:44:24 jaltman Exp $
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