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If someone obtained a copy of the keytab from a +backup, that person could make any host masquerade as the host whose +keytab was compromised. In many configurations, knowledge of the +host’s keytab also allows root access to the host. This could be +particularly dangerous if the compromised keytab was from one of your +KDCs. If the machine has a disk crash and the keytab file is lost, it +is easy to generate another keytab file. (See <a class="reference internal" href="appl_servers.html#add-princ-kt"><em>Adding principals to keytabs</em></a>.) +If you are unable to exclude particular files from backups, you should +ensure that the backups are kept as secure as the host’s root +password.</p> +<div class="section" id="backing-up-the-kerberos-database"> +<h2>Backing up the Kerberos database<a class="headerlink" href="#backing-up-the-kerberos-database" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<p>As with any file, it is possible that your Kerberos database could +become corrupted. If this happens on one of the slave KDCs, you might +never notice, since the next automatic propagation of the database +would install a fresh copy. However, if it happens to the master KDC, +the corrupted database would be propagated to all of the slaves during +the next propagation. For this reason, MIT recommends that you back +up your Kerberos database regularly. Because the master KDC is +continuously dumping the database to a file in order to propagate it +to the slave KDCs, it is a simple matter to have a cron job +periodically copy the dump file to a secure machine elsewhere on your +network. (Of course, it is important to make the host where these +backups are stored as secure as your KDCs, and to encrypt its +transmission across your network.) Then if your database becomes +corrupted, you can load the most recent dump onto the master KDC. +(See <a class="reference internal" href="database.html#restore-from-dump"><em>Restoring a Kerberos database from a dump file</em></a>.)</p> +</div> +</div> + + + </div> + </div> + </div> + </div> + <div class="sidebar"> + <h2>On this page</h2> + <ul> +<li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Backups of secure hosts</a><ul> +<li><a class="reference internal" href="#backing-up-the-kerberos-database">Backing up the Kerberos database</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +</ul> + + <br/> + <h2>Table of contents</h2> + <ul class="current"> +<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="../user/index.html">For users</a></li> +<li class="toctree-l1 current"><a class="reference internal" href="index.html">For administrators</a><ul class="current"> +<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="install.html">Installation guide</a></li> +<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference 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