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Decrypt kerberos ticket using Spnego

Asked 2010-12-22T11:11:46.940
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I'm using spnego ( http://spnego.sourceforge.net ) for kerberos authentication under JBoss.

I need to decrypt kerberos ticket to access the authorization-data which will containt PAC data. The PAC data is needed to decide which roles are to be granted to user.

How to access and decrypt kerberos ticket? I've searched net for examples, but without effort.

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These guys have a full PAC decoding implementation:

http://jaaslounge.sourceforge.net/

You can use the token parser like this:

HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) req;
String header = request.getHeader("Authorization");
byte[] base64Token = header.substring(10).getBytes("UTF-8");
byte[] spnegoHeader = Base64.decode(base64Token);

SpnegoInitToken spnegoToken = new SpnegoInitToken(spnegoHeader);

You're going to need to jump though some hoops if you want to decrypt the underlying Kerberos ticket. Not sure if you need that.

Grant

answered 2011-01-07T18:26:32.983
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I have successfully used the servlet filter from http://spnego.sourceforge.net in combination with the PAC parser from http://jaaslounge.sourceforge.net/ without the need to do something explicitly with DER/ASN.1 parsers :

/** 
 * Retrieve LogonInfo (for example, Group SID) from the PAC Authorization Data
 * from a Kerberos Ticket that was issued by Active Directory.
 */  
byte[] kerberosTokenData = gssapiData;
try {
    SpnegoToken token = SpnegoToken.parse(gssapiData);
    kerberosTokenData = token.getMechanismToken();
} catch (DecodingException dex) {
    // Chromium bug: sends a Kerberos response instead of an spnego response 
    // with a Kerberos mechanism
} catch (Exception ex) {
    log.error("", ex);
}   

try {
    Object[] keyObjs = IteratorUtils.toArray(loginContext.getSubject()
                         .getPrivateCredentials(KerberosKey.class).iterator());
    KerberosKey[] keys = new KerberosKey[keyObjs.length];
    System.arraycopy(keyObjs, 0, keys, 0, keyObjs.length);

    KerberosToken token = new KerberosToken(kerberosTokenData, keys);
    log.info("Authorizations: "); 
    for (KerberosAuthData authData : token.getTicket().getEncData()
                                             .getUserAuthorizations()) {
        if (authData instanceof KerberosPacAuthData) {
            PacSid[] groupSIDs = ((KerberosPacAuthData) authData)
                                      .getPac().getLogonInfo().getGroupSids();
            log.info("GroupSids: " + Arrays.toString(groupSIDs));
            response.getWriter().println("Found group SIDs: " + 
                Arrays.toString(groupSIDs));
        } else {
            log.info("AuthData without PAC: " + authData.toString());
        }   
    }   
} catch (Exception ex) {
    log.error("", ex);
}   

I've also written a new HttpFilter (forked from spn

answered 2012-04-10T15:22:14.413

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