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- Network Working Group Brian A. Anderson
- Request for Comments: 927 BBN
- December 1984
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- TACACS User Identification Telnet Option
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- Status of this Memo
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- This RFC suggests a proposed protocol for the ARPA-Internet
- community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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- Introduction
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- The following is the description of a TELNET option designed to
- facilitate double login avoidance. It is intended primarily for TAC
- connections to target hosts on behalf of TAC users, but it can be
- used between any two consenting hosts. For example, all hosts at one
- site (e.g., BBN) can use this option to avoid double login when
- TELNETing to one another.
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- 1. Command name and code
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- TUID 26
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- 2. Command Meanings
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- IAC WILL TUID
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- The sender (the TELNET user) proposes to authenticate the user and
- send the identifing UUID; or, the sender (the TELNET user) agrees
- to authenticate the user on whose behalf the connection is
- initiated.
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- IAC WON'T TUID
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- The sender (the TELNET user) refuses to authenticate the user on
- whose behalf the connection is initiated.
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- IAC DO TUID
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- The sender (the TELNET server) proposes that the recipient (the
- TELNET user) authenticate the user and send the identifing UUID;
- or, the sender (the TELNET server) agrees to accept the
- recipient's (the TELNET user's) authentication of the user
- identified by his UUID.
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- IAC DON'T TUID
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- The sender (the TELNET server) refuses to accept the recipient's
- (the TELNET user) authentication of the user.
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- IAC SB TUID <uuid> IAC SE
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- The sender (the TELNET user) sends the UUID <uuid> of the user on
- whose behalf the connection is established to the host to which he
- is connected. The <uuid> is a 32 bit binary number.
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- 3. Default
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- WON'T TUID
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- A TELNET user host (the initiator of a TELNET connection) not
- implementing or using the TUID option will reply WON'T TUID to a
- DO TUID.
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- DON'T TUID
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- A TELNET server host (the recipient of a TELNET connection) not
- implementing or using the TUID option reply DON'T TUID to a WILL
- TUID.
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- 4. Motivation for the Option
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- Under TACACS (the TAC Access Control System) a user must be
- authenticated (give a correct name/password pair) to a TAC before he
- can connect to a host via the TAC. To avoid a second authentication
- by the target host, the TAC can pass along the user's proven identity
- (his UUID) to the that host. Hosts may accept the TAC's
- authentication of the user or not, at their option.
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- The same option can be used between any pair of cooperating hosts for
- the purpose of double login avoidance.
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- 5. Description for the Option
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- At the time that a host establishes a TELNET connection for a user to
- another host, if the latter supports the TUID option and wants to
- receive the user's UUID, it sends an IAC DO TUID to the the user's
- host. If the user's host supports the TUID option and wants to
- authenticate the user by sending the user's UUID, it responds IAC
- WILL TUID; otherwise it responds with IAC WON'T TUID. If both the
- user and server TELNETs agree, the user TELNET will then send the
- UUID to the server TELNET by sub-negotiation.
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- 6. Examples
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- There are two possible negotiations that result in the double login
- avoidance authentication of a user. Both the server and the user
- TELNET support the TUID option.
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- S = Server, U = User
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- Case 1:
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- S-> IAC DO TUID
- U-> IAC WILL TUID
- U-> IAC SB TUID <32-bit UUID> IAC SE
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- Case 2:
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- U-> IAC WILL TUID
- S-> IAC DO TUID
- U-> IAC SB TUID <32-bit UUID> IAC SE
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- There are also two possible negoitiations that do not result in the
- authentication of a user. In the first example the server supports
- TUID and the user TELNET doesn't. In the second example the user
- TELNET supports TUID but the server TELNET doesn't.
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- S = Server, U = User
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- Case 3:
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- S-> IAC DO TUID
- U-> IAC WONT TUID
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- Case 4:
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- U-> IAC WILL TUID
- S-> IAC DONT TUID
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- The TUID is transmitted with the subnegotiation command. For
- example, if the UUID had the value 1 the following string of octets
- would be transmitted:
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- IAC SB TUID 0 0 0 1 IAC SE
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- If the UUID had the value 255 the following string of octets would be
- transmitted:
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- IAC SB TUID 0 0 0 IAC IAC IAC SE
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- If the UUID had the value of all ones the following string of octets
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- IAC SB TUID IAC IAC IAC IAC IAC IAC IAC IAC IAC SE
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