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Re: Linux/Apache - combine mod_auth_kerb and ldap - to be or not

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Clausen)
Tue Apr 7 20:04:40 2009

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From: "Christopher D. Clausen" <cclausen@acm.org>
To: "kerbie_newbie" <zarafield@sky.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 19:00:23 -0500
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kerbie_newbie <zarafield@sky.com> wrote:
> At least in Apache 2.0, it is extremely difficult in Apache to get two
> authentication modules to co-exist; Apache by and large considers any
> particular portion of the URL space to be protected by only one
> authentication scheme (possibly combined with IP address
> restrictions). This is partly a limitation of Apache (particularly
> the configuration syntax) and partly related to difficulties in the
> HTTP protocol (you can't easily negotiate and attempt multiple
> authentication protocols in turn).

from:
http://modauthkerb.sourceforge.net/configure.html
KrbAuthoritative off
will allow you to pass to authn/authz to another module.

I've used a module that verifies against OpenAFS PTS groups and I assume 
LDAP works the same way.

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