Top Document: Kerberos FAQ, v2.0 (last modified 8/18/2000) Previous Document: 3.8. How do I use Kerberos telnet/rlogin to connect to a system as a userid other than my current one? Next Document: 3.10. Is there a way to use Kerberos to authenticate my X windows connections? I tried compiling the Kerberos support in X, but it See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge There was code in some versions of NCSA httpd 1.5 and Mosaic 2.7beta to do Kerberos authentication. Unfortunately this was non-standard and was not carried forward into any modern software. There are a number of ways to provide Kerberos password verification over an SSL-protected pipe, but be aware that these schemes all are fraught with a number of serious security problems. Nevertheless, you can find one example of a module at: * <http://stonecold.unity.ncsu.edu/software/mod_auth_kerb/index.html> The CyberSafe TrustBroker SSO/Web product provides a way to do Kerberos authentication over the web. For more information, look at: * <http://www.cybersafe.com/solutions/trustbroker.html> Probably the best protocol to use for this is the Kerberos Cipher Suites for TLS, which is documented in IETF RFC 2712: * <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2712.txt> An open-source implementation of this, called KSSL, can be found at SourceForge: * <http://sourceforge.net/projects/kssl/> User Contributions:Top Document: Kerberos FAQ, v2.0 (last modified 8/18/2000) Previous Document: 3.8. How do I use Kerberos telnet/rlogin to connect to a system as a userid other than my current one? Next Document: 3.10. Is there a way to use Kerberos to authenticate my X windows connections? I tried compiling the Kerberos support in X, but it Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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