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Re: problem obtaining tickets on a webserver

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Sun Feb 4 05:16:34 2007

From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: dk <dk@kadenpartner.ch>
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dk <dk@kadenpartner.ch> writes:

> If on server 1 the KrbMethodK5Passwd is set to off, the authentication
> on server 1 works too, but server 1 does not save a ticket.

You have to *explicitly* enable ticket delegation in Firefox (and IE, and
hopefully any other browser that does Negotiate-Auth) because handing out
your Kerberos tickets to just anyone is a huge security vulnerability.

See:

    <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/integrated-auth.html>

For Firefox, you have to set network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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