Does the admin_server have a failover facility? What funtion does admin_server provide?

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Issue

  • KDC can be set to multiple kerberos servers. what function or service does the kdc server provide? (Distribute the kerberos ticket?)

  • The admin_server cannot be set to multiple kerberos servers because it does not provide failover functionality. By default admin_server is the master kdc server.

  • What if the admin_server goes down ? What function or service does the admin_server provide? (In my mind, create key, modify key, manage principla)

  • If the admin_server went down, can the kerberos client also authenticate to kerber server(Maybe admin_server went down, there is another slave kerberos service which is not admin_server)?

  • If the admin_server went down, and the kerberos ticket was expired, can I re-generate the kerberos ticket?

  • If the admin_server went down, can a new client be added to kerberos server?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Kerberos
  • krb5.conf

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