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author | Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> | 2018-06-03 13:43:24 -0700 |
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committer | Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> | 2018-06-03 13:43:24 -0700 |
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Rewrite documentation using DocKnot
Numerous fixes to the README file by converging on standard
templates. Add a README.md for GitHub. Break thanks out into
a separate THANKS file following the convention used by remctl.
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@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@ - wallet release 1.3 + wallet 1.4 (secure data management system) + Maintained by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> - Written by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> - - Copyright 2014, 2016 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>. Copyright 2006, - 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 The Board of Trustees of the - Leland Stanford Junior University. This software is distributed under a - BSD-style license. Please see the section LICENSE below for more - information. + Copyright 2014, 2016, 2018 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>. Copyright + 2006-2010, 2012-2014 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior + University. This software is distributed under a BSD-style license. + Please see the section LICENSE below for more information. BLURB @@ -43,38 +41,37 @@ DESCRIPTION infrastructure. Supported ACL types include Kerberos principal names, regexes matching Kerberos principal names, and LDAP attribute checks. - Currently, the object types supported are simple files, Kerberos - keytabs, WebAuth keyrings, and Duo integrations. By default, whenever a - Kerberos keytab object is retrieved from the wallet, the key is changed - in the Kerberos KDC and the wallet returns a keytab for the new key. - However, a keytab object can also be configured to preserve the existing - keys when retrieved. Included in the wallet distribution is a script - that can be run via remctl on an MIT Kerberos KDC to extract the - existing key for a principal, and the wallet system will use that + Currently, the object types supported are simple files, passwords, + Kerberos keytabs, WebAuth keyrings, and Duo integrations. By default, + whenever a Kerberos keytab object is retrieved from the wallet, the key + is changed in the Kerberos KDC and the wallet returns a keytab for the + new key. However, a keytab object can also be configured to preserve + the existing keys when retrieved. Included in the wallet distribution + is a script that can be run via remctl on an MIT Kerberos KDC to extract + the existing key for a principal, and the wallet system will use that interface to retrieve the current key if the unchanging flag is set on a Kerberos keytab object for MIT Kerberos. (Heimdal doesn't require any special support.) REQUIREMENTS - The wallet client is written in C and builds against the C remctl - libraries. You will have to install the remctl client libraries in - order to build it. remctl can be obtained from: - - https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/ + The wallet client requires the C remctl [1] client library and a + Kerberos library. It will build with either MIT Kerberos or Heimdal. - The wallet client will build with either MIT Kerberos or Heimdal. + [1] https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/ The wallet server is written in Perl and requires Perl 5.8.0 or later - plus Module::Build to build. It uses DBIx::Class and DBI to talk to a - database, and therefore the DBIx::Class and DBI modules (and their - dependencies) and a DBD module for the database it will use must be - installed. The Date::Parse (part of the TimeDate distribution) and - DateTime modules are required for date handling, and the SQL::Translator - Perl module is also required for schema deployment and database - upgrades. You will also need the DateTime::Format::* module - corresponding to your DBD module (such as DateTime::Format::SQLite or - DateTime::Format::PG). + plus the following Perl modules: + + * Date::Parse (part of the TimeDate distribution) + * DBI + * DBIx::Class + * Module::Build + * SQL::Translator + + You will also need a DBD Perl module for the database backend that you + intend to use, and the DateTime::Format::* module corresponding to that + DBD module (such as DateTime::Format::SQLite or DateTime::Format::PG). Currently, the server has only been tested against SQLite 3, MySQL 5, and PostgreSQL, and prebuilt SQL files (for database upgrades) are only @@ -87,20 +84,12 @@ REQUIREMENTS translates the actions in that protocol into calls to the Wallet::Server Perl object. - The file object support in the wallet server requires the Digest::MD5 - Perl module, which comes with recent versions of Perl and is available - on CPAN for older versions. - - The keytab support in the wallet server supports either Heimdal or MIT + The keytab support in the wallet server supports Heimdal and MIT Kerberos KDCs and has experimental support for Active Directory. The Heimdal support requires the Heimdal::Kadm5 Perl module. The MIT Kerberos support requires the MIT Kerberos kadmin client program be installed. The Active Directory support requires the Net::LDAP, Authen::SASL, and IPC::Run Perl modules and the msktutil client program. - In all cases, wallet also requires that the wallet server have a keytab - for a principal with appropriate access to create, modify, and delete - principals from the KDC (as configured in kadm5.acl on an MIT Kerberos - KDC). To support the unchanging flag on keytab objects with an MIT Kerberos KDC, the Net::Remctl Perl module (shipped with remctl) must be installed @@ -118,47 +107,21 @@ REQUIREMENTS The password object support in the wallet server requires the Crypt::GeneratePassword Perl module. - To support the LDAP attribute ACL verifier, the Authen::SASL and - Net::LDAP Perl modules must be installed on the server. This verifier - only works with LDAP servers that support GSS-API binds. - - To support the NetDB ACL verifier (only of interest at sites using NetDB - to manage DNS), the Net::Remctl Perl module must be installed on the - server. - - To run the full test suite, all of the above software requirements must - be met. The full test suite also requires that remctld be installed and - available on the user's path or in /usr/local/sbin or /usr/sbin, that - sqlite3 be installed and available on the user's path, that test cases - can run services on and connect to port 14373 on 127.0.0.1, and that - kinit and either kvno or kgetcred (which come with Kerberos) be - installed and available on the user's path. The full test suite also - requires a local keytab and some additional configuration. - - The following additional Perl modules will be used if present: + The LDAP attribute ACL verifier requires the Authen::SASL and Net::LDAP + Perl modules. This verifier only works with LDAP servers that support + GSS-API binds. - Test::MinimumVersion - Test::Pod - Test::Spelling - Test::Strict - - All are available on CPAN. Those tests will be skipped if the modules - are not available. - - To enable tests that don't detect functionality problems but are used to - sanity-check the release, set the environment variable RELEASE_TESTING - to a true value. To enable tests that may be sensitive to the local - environment or that produce a lot of false positives without uncovering - many problems, set the environment variable AUTHOR_TESTING to a true - value. + The NetDB ACL verifier (only of interest at sites using NetDB to manage + DNS) requires the Net::Remctl Perl module. To bootstrap from a Git checkout, or if you change the Automake files and need to regenerate Makefile.in, you will need Automake 1.11 or later. For bootstrap or if you change configure.ac or any of the m4 files it includes and need to regenerate configure or config.h.in, you - will need Autoconf 2.64 or later. + will need Autoconf 2.64 or later. Perl is also required to generate + manual pages from a fresh Git checkout. -BUILD AND INSTALLATION +BUILDING AND INSTALLATION You can build and install wallet with the standard commands: @@ -166,17 +129,16 @@ BUILD AND INSTALLATION make make install + If you are building from a Git clone, first run ./bootstrap in the + source directory to generate the build files. make install will + probably have to be done as root. Building outside of the source + directory is also supported, if you wish, by creating an empty directory + and then running configure with the correct relative path. + If you are upgrading the wallet server from an earlier installed version, run wallet-admin upgrade after installation to upgrade the database schema. See the wallet-admin manual page for more information. - Pass --enable-silent-rules to configure for a quieter build (similar to - the Linux kernel). Use make warnings instead of make to build with full - GCC compiler warnings (requires a relatively current version of GCC). - - The last step will probably have to be done as root. Currently, this - always installs both the client and the server. - You can pass the --with-wallet-server and --with-wallet-port options to configure to compile in a default wallet server and port. If no port is set, the remctl default port is used. If no server is set, the server @@ -206,73 +168,65 @@ BUILD AND INSTALLATION --with-remctl-lib=DIR. Normally, configure will use krb5-config to determine the flags to use - to compile with your Kerberos libraries. If krb5-config isn't found, it - will look for the standard Kerberos libraries in locations already - searched by your compiler. If the the krb5-config script first in your - path is not the one corresponding to the Kerberos libraries you want to - use or if your Kerberos libraries and includes aren't in a location - searched by default by your compiler, you need to specify - --with-krb5=PATH and --with-gssapi=PATH: + to compile with your Kerberos libraries. To specify a particular + krb5-config script to use, either set the PATH_KRB5_CONFIG environment + variable or pass it to configure like: - ./configure --with-krb5=/usr/pubsw --with-gssapi=/usr/pubsw + ./configure PATH_KRB5_CONFIG=/path/to/krb5-config - You can also individually set the paths to the include directory and the - library directory with --with-krb5-include, --with-krb5-lib, - --with-gssapi-include, and --with-gssapi-lib. You may need to do this - if Autoconf can't figure out whether to use lib, lib32, or lib64 on your - platform. Note that these settings aren't used if a krb5-config script - is found. + If krb5-config isn't found, configure will look for the standard + Kerberos libraries in locations already searched by your compiler. If + the the krb5-config script first in your path is not the one + corresponding to the Kerberos libraries you want to use, or if your + Kerberos libraries and includes aren't in a location searched by default + by your compiler, you need to specify a different Kerberos installation + root via --with-krb5=PATH. For example: - To specify a particular krb5-config script to use, either set the - KRB5_CONFIG environment variable or pass it to configure like: + ./configure --with-krb5=/usr/pubsw - ./configure KRB5_CONFIG=/path/to/krb5-config + You can also individually set the paths to the include directory and the + library directory with --with-krb5-include and --with-krb5-lib. You may + need to do this if Autoconf can't figure out whether to use lib, lib32, + or lib64 on your platform. To not use krb5-config and force library probing even if there is a - krb5-config script on your path, set KRB5_CONFIG to a nonexistent path: + krb5-config script on your path, set PATH_KRB5_CONFIG to a nonexistent + path: + + ./configure PATH_KRB5_CONFIG=/nonexistent - ./configure KRB5_CONFIG=/nonexistent + krb5-config is not used and library probing is always done if either + --with-krb5-include or --with-krb5-lib are given. - You can build wallet in a different directory from the source if you - wish. To do this, create a new empty directory, cd to that directory, - and then give the path to configure when running configure. Everything - else should work as above. + Pass --enable-silent-rules to configure for a quieter build (similar to + the Linux kernel). Use make warnings instead of make to build with full + compiler warnings (requires either GCC or Clang and may require a + relatively current version of the compiler). You can pass the --enable-reduced-depends flag to configure to try to minimize the shared library dependencies encoded in the binaries. This - omits from the link line all the libraries included solely because the - Kerberos libraries depend on them and instead links the programs only - against libraries whose APIs are called directly. This will only work - with shared Kerberos libraries and will only work on platforms where - shared libraries properly encode their own dependencies (such as Linux). - It is intended primarily for building packages for Linux distributions - to avoid encoding unnecessary shared library dependencies that make - shared library migrations more difficult. If none of the above made any - sense to you, don't bother with this flag. + omits from the link line all the libraries included solely because other + libraries depend on them and instead links the programs only against + libraries whose APIs are called directly. This will only work with + shared libraries and will only work on platforms where shared libraries + properly encode their own dependencies (this includes most modern + platforms such as all Linux). It is intended primarily for building + packages for Linux distributions to avoid encoding unnecessary shared + library dependencies that make shared library migrations more difficult. + If none of the above made any sense to you, don't bother with this flag. TESTING - The wallet system comes with an extensive test suite which you can run - with: - - make check - - In order to test the client in a meaningful way and test the keytab - support in the server, however, you will need to do some preparatory - work before running the test suite. Review the files: + The wallet comes with a comprehensive test suite, but it requires some + configuration in order to test anything other than low-level utility + functions. To enable the full test suite, follow the instructions in: - tests/config/README - perl/t/data/README + * tests/config/README + * perl/t/data/README - and follow the instructions in those files to enable the full test - suite. + Now, you can run the test suite with: - The test suite also requires some additional software be installed that - isn't otherwise used by the wallet. See REQUIREMENTS above for the full - list of requirements for the test suite. The test driver attempts to - selectively skip those tests for which the necessary configuration is - not available, but this has not yet been fully tested in all of its - possible permutations. + make check If a test fails, you can run a single test with verbose output via: @@ -281,13 +235,38 @@ TESTING Do this instead of running the test program directly since it will ensure that necessary environment variables are set up. -CONFIGURATION + The test suite requires remctld be installed and available in the user's + path or in /usr/local/sbin or /usr/sbin; and that sqlite3, kinit, and + either kvno or kgetcred be installed and available on the user's path. + The test suite will also need to be able to bind to 127.0.0.1 on ports + 11119 and 14373 to test client/server network interactions. - For the basic setup and configuration of the wallet server, see the file - docs/setup in the source distribution. You will need to set up a - database on the server (unless you're using SQLite), initialize the - database, install remctld and the wallet Perl modules, and set up - remctld to run the wallet-backend program. + The test suite uses a SQLite database for server-side and end-to-end + testing and therefore requires the DBD::SQLite and + DateTime::Format::SQLite Perl modules. + + All of the requirements listed above will be required to run the full + test suite of server functionality, but tests will be selectively + skipped if their requirements aren't found. + + The following additional Perl modules will be used if present: + + * Test::MinimumVersion + * Test::Pod + * Test::Spelling + * Test::Strict + + All are available on CPAN. Those tests will be skipped if the modules + are not available. + + To enable tests that don't detect functionality problems but are used to + sanity-check the release, set the environment variable RELEASE_TESTING + to a true value. To enable tests that may be sensitive to the local + environment or that produce a lot of false positives without uncovering + many problems, set the environment variable AUTHOR_TESTING to a true + value. + +CONFIGURATION Before setting up the wallet server, review the Wallet::Config documentation (with man Wallet::Config or perldoc Wallet::Config). @@ -296,6 +275,12 @@ CONFIGURATION and give it appropriate ACLs, and set up keytab-backend and its remctld configuration on your KDC if you want unchanging flag support. + For the basic setup and configuration of the wallet server, see the file + docs/setup in the source distribution. You will need to set up a + database on the server (unless you're using SQLite), initialize the + database, install remctld and the wallet Perl modules, and set up + remctld to run the wallet-backend program. + The wallet client supports reading configuration settings from the system krb5.conf file. For more information, see the CONFIGURATION section of the wallet client man page (man wallet). @@ -309,61 +294,45 @@ SUPPORT will always have the current version of this package, the current documentation, and pointers to any additional resources. - New releases of the wallet are announced on the kerberos@mit.edu mailing - list and discussion of the wallet (particularly the keytab components) - are welcome there. - - I welcome bug reports and patches for this package at eagle@eyrie.org. - However, please be aware that I tend to be extremely busy and work - projects often take priority. I'll save your mail and get to it as soon - as I can, but it may take me a couple of months. - -SOURCE REPOSITORY + New wallet releases are announced on the kerberos@mit.edu mailing list. + To subscribe or see the list archives, go to: - The wallet is maintained using Git. You can access the current source - by cloning the repository at: + https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos - git://git.eyrie.org/kerberos/wallet.git + For bug tracking, use the issue tracker on GitHub: - or view the repository on the web at: + https://github.com/rra/wallet/issues - https://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/wallet.git + However, please be aware that I tend to be extremely busy and work + projects often take priority. I'll save your report and get to it as + soon as I can, but it may take me a couple of months. - When contributing modifications, patches (possibly generated by - git-format-patch) are preferred to Git pull requests. +SOURCE REPOSITORY -THANKS + wallet is maintained using Git. You can access the current source on + GitHub at: - To Roland Schemers for the original idea that kicked off this project - and for the original implementation of the leland_srvtab system, which - was its primary inspiration. + https://github.com/rra/wallet - To Anton Ushakov for his prior work on Kerberos v5 synchronization and - his enhancements to kasetkey to read a key from an existing srvtab. + or by cloning the repository at: - To Jeffrey Hutzelman for his review of the original wallet design and - multiple useful discussions about what actions and configurations the - wallet would need to support to be useful outside of Stanford. + https://git.eyrie.org/git/kerberos/wallet.git - To Huaqing Zheng, Paul Pavelko, David Hoffman, and Paul Keser for their - reviews of the wallet system design and comments on design decisions and - security models. + or view the repository via the web at: - To Jon Robertson for the refactoring of Wallet::Kadmin, Heimdal support, - many of the wallet server-side reports, the initial wallet-rekey - implementation, and lots of work on object and ACL types including - nested ACLs. + https://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/wallet.git - To Bill MacAllister for Wallet::Kadmin::AD and the implementation of - keytab object types backed by Active Directory. + The eyrie.org repository is the canonical one, maintained by the author, + but using GitHub is probably more convenient for most purposes. Pull + requests are gratefully reviewed and normally accepted. LICENSE - The wallet distribution as a whole is covered by the following copyright + The wallet package as a whole is covered by the following copyright statement and license: - Copyright 2014, 2016 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> - Copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 + Copyright 2014, 2016, 2018 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> + Copyright 2006-2010, 2012-2014 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining @@ -385,12 +354,16 @@ LICENSE TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. - All individual files without an explicit exception below are released - under this license. Some files may have additional copyright holders as - noted in those files. There is detailed information about the licensing - of each file in the LICENSE file in this distribution. - Some files in this distribution are individually released under different licenses, all of which are compatible with the above general package license but which may require preservation of additional - notices. All required notices are preserved in the LICENSE file. + notices. All required notices, and detailed information about the + licensing of each file, are recorded in the LICENSE file. + + Files covered by a license with an assigned SPDX License Identifier + include SPDX-License-Identifier tags to enable automated processing of + license information. See https://spdx.org/licenses/ for more + information. + + For any copyright range specified by files in this package as YYYY-ZZZZ, + the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. |