[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 882 always require SSL in Kerberos block

[Martin Kosek]

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 08:54 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 11:22 +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> >> IPA server, client and replica installation and WebUI worked for me.
> >
> > This patch seems to defeat the purpose as we are still allowing krb auth
> > on locations that do not enforce ssl.
> >
> > NACK.
> >
> > Simo.
> >
> 
> Simo's concern is that if you enable the fake basic auth and go to an 
> HTTP page you could expose your credentials. Probably worth testing with 
> something like the LiveHTTPHeaders extension. Go to the webui then grab 
> the CA or something in /ipa/config and see if it sends the Authorized 
> header.

I checked headers with LiveHTTPHeaders when
requesting /ipa/config/ca.crt and saw Authorization header with user:pwd
sent only when accessing it via https.

> 
> The only other solution I see is to duplicate the krb block for each of 
> our three authenticated uris: /ipa/ui, /ipa/xml and /ipa/json.
> 
> rob

I guess this can be done, I would rather let someone with stronger
apache-fu than me do the change.

Martin