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k5login(5)


NAME

   k5login - Kerberos V5 acl file for host access

DESCRIPTION

   The .k5login file, which resides in a user's home directory, contains a
   list of the Kerberos principals.   Anyone  with  valid  tickets  for  a
   principal  in  the file is allowed host access with the UID of the user
   in whose home directory the file resides.  One common use is to place a
   .k5login  file  in  root's  home  directory,  thereby  granting  system
   administrators remote root access to the host via Kerberos.

EXAMPLES

   Suppose the user alice had  a  .k5login  file  in  her  home  directory
   containing just the following line:

      bob@FOOBAR.ORG

   This  would  allow  bob  to  use Kerberos network applications, such as
   ssh(1), to access alice's account, using bob's Kerberos tickets.  In  a
   default  configuration  (with  k5login_authoritative  set  to  true  in
   krb5.conf(5)), this .k5login file would not let alice use those network
   applications  to  access her account, since she is not listed!  With no
   .k5login file, or with k5login_authoritative set to  false,  a  default
   rule would permit the principal alice in the machine's default realm to
   access the alice account.

   Let us further suppose that alice is a system administrator.  Alice and
   the  other  system administrators would have their principals in root's
   .k5login file on each host:

      alice@BLEEP.COM

      joeadmin/root@BLEEP.COM

   This would allow either system administrator to log in to  these  hosts
   using  their  Kerberos  tickets  instead  of  having  to  type the root
   password.  Note that because bob retains the Kerberos tickets  for  his
   own  principal, bob@FOOBAR.ORG, he would not have any of the privileges
   that require alice's tickets, such as root access to any of the  site's
   hosts, or the ability to change alice's password.

SEE ALSO

   kerberos(1)

AUTHOR

   MIT

COPYRIGHT

   1985-2016, MIT



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