[Freeipa-users] The htaccess login pop-up window appears but login never succeeds

[Rob Crittenden]

Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 02/11/2013 02:16 PM, Eivind Olsen wrote:
>> Eivind Olsen wrote:
>>
>>> Did you get any closer to finding out what's causing this? I get the same
>>> kind of pop-up window here, but only in some web browsers: I get the
>>> pop-up in MS Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, but not in Firefox.
>>> Opera gives me a "Unknown Error" instead.
>>> (this is on RHEL 6.3 w/IPA 2.2.0-17, btw)
>> Hm, I normally try to not reply to myself, but thought I'd add that after
>> upgrading Opera from 11.x to 12.14 I no longer get the "Unknown Error",
>> but instead I get a login pop-up just like I did with MSIE and Chrome.
>>
>> Regards
>> Eivind Olsen
>
> So which versions of the browsers we are talking about?
> I wonder if you hitting the case when the method we used on configuring
> the browser does not work any more on the newer browsers.
> We saw some problems with latest versions of FF so we had add a fix for
> 3.0.
> If your initial configuration did not happen properly you might need to
> configure you browser manually.
> There is a procedure in the manual regarding configuring the browser.

I just don't know why an authentication dialog would pop up unless 
KrbMethodK5Passwd was set to on in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ipa.conf.

It might be handy to use something like the Live HTTP Headers plugin to 
capture the dialog to see what is actually being exchanged.

rob