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Re: Help with SASL/GSSAPI to remote Kerberos server

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sebastian Hanigk)
Wed Feb 20 11:00:17 2008

From: Sebastian Hanigk <hanigk@in.tum.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:49:11 +0100
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"Douglas E. Engert" <deengert@anl.gov> writes:

> As Jeff pointed out, not with GSSAPI. What you might be looking for
> is slapd code to take a username and password and do in effect a kinit
> and a verify tgt, or have a sasl plugin do it for your. I don't know
> of one.

There is an ugly hack: having a userPassword field with "{SASL}<Kerberos
principal>" in LDAP you can employ saslauthd's Kerberos backend. We use
it as a crutch for a web application which can only authenticate against
an LDAP directory (*cough* Zope *cough*).


Sebastian
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