[Freeipa-devel] Use sessions for mod_auth_gssapi ?

[Adam Young]

On 03/30/2015 11:52 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> Since we now merged in a change from mod_auth_kerb to mod_auth_gssapi I
> was wondering if we want to press further and emable by default the use
> of native mod_auth_gssapi sessions ?
>
> The old mod_auth_kerb didn't have this feature so, in order to have
> decent performace we introduced split paths where some are always
> incurring the full negotiate penalty and other are and instead rely on a
> session cookie.
>
> mod_auth_gssapi can be configured to use a session cookie directly which
> avoids the negotiate auth performance hit. Integration would require
> that the FreeIPA code learns how to delete the cookie when someone hits
> a logout button, but it would be otherwise transparent.
>
> It would be especially useful for 3rd party clients that want to use the
> json/xmlrpc enpoints, as all they have to do is just support sending
> back cookies and they do not have to learn how to contact multiple
> endopints to get credentials and then switch to the session only based
> ones.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> Simo.
>
I always wanted this.  It would be awesome, very valuable.

REcall that when we looked into it we were on Apache 1.3, and seesion 
support, mod_seesion, was not avaialble.  Fairly certain the landscape 
has changed since then.