Cmc; Prerequisites For Single Sign-On Or Smart Card Login; Generating Kerberos Keytab File; Configuring Cmc For Active Directory Schema - Dell PowerEdge VRTX User Manual

CMC

• Each CMC must have an Active Directory account.
• CMC must be a part of the Active Directory domain and Kerberos Realm.

Prerequisites For Single Sign-On Or Smart Card Login

The pre-requisites to configure SSO or Smart Card logins are:
• Setup the kerberos realm and Key Distribution Center (KDC) for Active Directory (ksetup).
• A robust NTP and DNS infrastructure to avoid issues with clock drift and reverse lookup.
• Configure CMC with Active Directory standard schema role group with authorized members.
• For smart card, create Active Directory users for each CMC, configured to use Kerberos DES encryption but not
pre-authentication.
• Configure the browser for SSO or smart card login.
• Register the CMC users to the Key Distribution Center with Ktpass (this also outputs a key to upload to CMC).

Generating Kerberos Keytab File

To support the SSO and smart card login authentication, CMC supports Windows Kerberos network. The ktpass tool
(available from Microsoft as part of the server installation CD/DVD) is used to create the Service Principal Name (SPN)
bindings to a user account and export the trust information into a MIT-style Kerberos keytab file. For more information
about the ktpass utility, see the Microsoft Website.
Before generating a keytab file, you must create an Active Directory user account for use with the -mapuser option of
the ktpass command. You must use the same name as the CMC DNS name to which you upload the generated keytab
file.
To generate a keytab file using the ktpass tool:
ktpass utility on the domain controller (Active Directory server), where you want to map CMC to a user
1. Run the
account in Active Directory.
2. Use the following ktpass command to create the Kerberos keytab file:
C:\>ktpass -princ HTTP/cmcname.domain_name.com@REALM_NAME.COM - mapuser
dracname -crypto DES-CBC-MD5 -ptype KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL -pass * -out c:
\krbkeytab
NOTE: The cmcname.domainname.com must be in lower case as required by RFC and the
@REALM_NAME must be in uppercase. In addition, CMC supports the DES-CBC-MD5 type of cryptography for
Kerberos authentication.
A keytab file is generated that must be uploaded to CMC.
NOTE: The keytab contains an encryption key and must be kept secure. For more information about the
utility, see the Microsoft Website.

Configuring CMC For Active Directory Schema

For information about configuring CMC for Active Directory standard schema, see
Directory.
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