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"Defective Token Deteced" error (NTLM not Kerberos) with Kerberos/Spring Security/IE/Active Directory

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+1 A:

This can happen when you are running the client and server on the same machine. When you use IE to talk to the machine running tomcat ensure that these are distinct machines.

Additionally you need to ensure that the server machine is joined to the domain specified in the keytab (testdomain.ourcompany.co.uk) or you might drop back to NTLM. Your keytab can still work even if your server is on a machine not joined to the domain (you'll see the nice keytab decrypt that you showed), but IE can get confused and not do the correct thing.

AD only really likes to speak arcfour-hmac for Server 2003 so you need to ensure that you set this up correctly in your krb5.ini file.

You can correctly create the keytab like this:

C:\>ktpass -princ HTTP/[email protected] -mapuser [email protected] -crypto RC4-HMAC-NT -ptype K
RB5_NT_PRINCIPAL -pass * -out ourweb.keytab
Targeting domain controller: test-dc.ourcompany.co.uk
Using legacy password setting method
Successfully mapped HTTP/[email protected] to ourweb.testdomain.ourcompany.co.uk.
Key created.
Output keytab to ourweb.keytab:
Keytab version: 0x502
keysize 75 HTTP/[email protected] ptype 1 (KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL)
vno 3 etype 0x17 (RC4-HMAC) keylength 16 (0x0fd0e500225c4fca9a63a9998b17ca32)

I did not see that you had set up a krb5.ini file. You will need to have that set correctly on your server machine (default location C:\WINDOWS\krb5.ini):

[domain_realm]  
    .testdomain.ourcompany.co.uk = TESTDOMAIN.OURCOMPANY.CO.UK
    testdomain.ourcompany.co.uk = TESTDOMAIN.OURCOMPANY.CO.UK

[libdefaults]   
    default_realm = TESTDOMAIN.OURCOMPANY.CO.UK
    permitted_enctypes = aes128-cts aes256-cts arcfour-hmac-md5 
    default_tgs_enctypes = aes128-cts aes256-cts arcfour-hmac-md5 
    default_tkt_enctypes = aes128-cts aes256-cts arcfour-hmac-md5 

[realms]    
VERDAD.LOCAL = {        
    kdc = test-dc.ourcompany.co.uk  
    admin_server = test-dc.ourcompany.co.uk
    default_domain = TESTDOMAIN.OURCOMPANY.CO.UK
}

You might also need to set the following properties (if you are trying to run this from an IDE):

<systemProperties>
  <java.security.krb5.kdc>test-dc.ourcompany.co.uk</java.security.krb5.kdc>
  <java.security.krb5.realm>TESTDOMAIN.OURCOMPANY.CO.UK</java.security.krb5.realm>
</systemProperties>

I was using the org.codehaus.mojo plugin for maven which sets these in the pom file like this:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
        <server>tomcat-development-server</server>
        <port>8080</port>
        <path>/SecurityTest</path>
        <systemProperties>
          <java.security.krb5.kdc>test-dc.ourcompany.co.uk</java.security.krb5.kdc
          <java.security.krb5.realm>TESTDOMAIN.OURCOMPANY.CO.UK</java.security.krb5.realm>
        </systemProperties>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

Grant Cermak 2010-08-04 22:10:12

Thanks @Grant. Great answer. We checked and we were running client and server on different machines, and the server was on the domain. However there was a problem with our keytab.ini file which you pointed us towards. Thanks again.We'll also try the Maven tip. This is "above and beyond" and very much appreciated.

Andrew Harmel-Law 2010-08-17 16:23:59

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