[Freeipa-devel] mod_auth_kerb ticket forwarding

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Wed Aug 29 12:42:10 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 07:59 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 17:53 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 17:08 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> 
> > > I looked into it a bit today and was able get it working in the simplest 
> > > case where either would be supported. The trouble is that SASL auth 
> > > doesn't work over SSL. I'm not sure we want that. We may simply be 
> > > better off with proxy auth.
> > 
> > When you do GSSAPI auth you get encryption for free, so SSL is not
> > required in that case.
> 
> This is true for LDAP, just not for HTTP.

Yes we were talking about the LDAP connection afaik.
HTTPS shouldn;t have any problems with GSSAPI and SSL is the standard
for HTTP anyway.

>   Having just GSSAPI sealing
> for the xml-rpc -> LDAP connection would seem simpler (and can nicely be
> sniffed, with the right keys exported, with wireshark :-). 

I guess wireshark can use an SSL certificate copy to unseal an SSL
encrypted connection?

Simo.




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